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Urgent Applications 2009
Georgia
Women’s Fund in Georgia/ International Network of Women’s Funds
INWF Regional Meeting for the European Meeting in Tbilisi
Representatives of the European autonomous women’s foundations met in Tbilisi from 8. to 10.10.2009 to develop joint lobbying strategies for women’s rights in the European foundation landscape and for joint fundraising.
www.inwf.org
Total: € 1,000 (Follow-up grant)
Zimbabwe
Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ)
Project “Sexual Orientation Indaba”
Work is currently in progress on the new constitution in Zimbabwe – with participation of civil society organisations in the reforming process. GALZ is working to anchor sexual orientation and sexual identity as human rights in the new constitution. The organisation has been persevering for a long time to decriminalise homosexuality by law. GALZ needs solidarity and support from other human rights NGOs for its lobbying work. Homophobia is widespread in human rights NGOs too. Often no connection is established between the right to sexual orientation and sexual identity and other human rights. GALZ has succeeded in winning partners in cooperation among human rights NGOs.
At the Indaba (a South African tradition: meeting of the Elders)the role of LGBT rights is to be mainstreamed within the human rights discussion. Furthermore, work is in process on specific strategies indicating how the reforming process can be influenced in this direction.
www.galz.co.zw
Total: € 3,500 (Follow-on grant)
South Africa
Urgent grant
South Africa
Lesbian and Gay Equality Project
www.equality.org.za
In April 2008 the corpse of Eudi Simelane was found on the banks of a stream in an open field within sight of corrugated metal huts belonging to the Township of KwaThema near Johannesburg in South Africa. Eudy Simelane was a young women living openly as a lesbian, a former women member of South Africa’s national women’s football team, and an activist for human rights of lesbians. Aged 31, she was raped by a number of young men between the ages of 18 and 24 and murdered. The activists of the Lesbian and Gay Equality Project expected a strong signal effect for the population and policy decision-makers from the court case against the murderers of Eudy Simelane. Hoping for recognition of the murder as a “hate crime”, they mobilised over 200 people who pitched their tents outside the court during the hearings. They organised demonstrations in Delmas and a campaign for the rights of LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexuals and transsexuals) that addresses citizens and politicians.
filia supported the costs of bus transportation, meals and pamphlets with an urgent grant.
Total: € 5,000