Partners
The Association for Progressive Communications (APC) is an international network of civil society organisations founded in 1990, dedicated to empowering and supporting people working for peace, human rights, development and protection of the environment, through the strategic use of information and communications technologies (ICTs). We work to build a world in which all people have easy, equal and affordable access to the creative potential of ICTs to improve their lives and create more democratic and egalitarian societies. APC is the lead implementing partner for Safety for Voices and works with its partners across the Global South.
Urgent Action Func Africa (UAF Africa) s a feminist, pan-African rapid response fund committed to transforming power relations through resourcing African feminists and womn’s human rights defenders and their formations, as an act of solidarity. Bold, responsive, creative, and consistent, UAF-Africa advocates for funding partners to understand, commit to, and actively invest in pan-African feminists and womn’s rights activism and urgent situations requiring rapid response. With deep and expanding knowledge, experience, and skills in the context in which womn’s human rights defenders live, organise and work.
The UAF Asia and Pacific, is a feminist fund, and the first regionally based and autonomously registered Urgent Action Fund in Asia and the Pacific. Our geographic scope covers 51 countries and territories across Asia and the Pacific. Since our inception in 2018, we have provided 2000 grants worth USD 9.4 million to defenders across 33 countries. We support the resilience and resistance of movements led by women and non-binary activists in the Pacific and Asia by co-creating a safe environment for them to sustain their activism and thrive. Guided by feminist values, individuals, organisations, and their communities are provided urgent grants and strategic support to strengthen their safety and well-being
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The Mesoamerican Initiative of Women Human Rights Defenders (IM-Defensoras) is a convergence that articulates feminist organizations and networks of women defenders from different Mesoamerican social movements. IMD emerged in 2010 to address the violence defenders face in their territories because of our human rights defense and because they are women or persons with gender or sexual identities who challenge norms. This is how IMD contribute to protecting and strengthening the struggles, the organizations, and the social movements in which defenders participate