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Программа грантов для развития гражданского общества поддерживает проекты, инициированные гражданским обществом и направленные на укрепление связей и взаимодействия с гражданами и сообществами, а также на содействие и участие в диалоге между гражданским обществом и соответствующими национальными и международными заинтересованными сторонами.

სამოქალაქო საზოგადოების საგრანტო პროგრამის მიზანია, მხარი დაუჭიროს სამოქალაქო საზოგადოების მიერ მართულ ისეთ პროექტებს, რომლებიც მიზნად ისახავენ მოქალაქეებისა და თემების ჩართულობისა და მათ შორის იდეების გავრცელების გაძლიერებას, ასევე, სამოქალაქო საზოგადოებასა და შესაბამის ეროვნულ თუ საერთაშორისო დაინტერესებულ მხარეებს შორის დიალოგის დამყარებასა და გაუმჯობესებას.

Քաղաքացիական հասարակության դրամաշնորհների ծրագիրն աջակցում է քաղաքացիական հասարակության կողմից ղեկավարվող ծրագրերին, որոնք ուղղված են քաղաքացիների և համայնքների հետ իրազեկման և ներգրավվածության ամրապնդմանը, ինչպես նաև քաղաքացիական հասարակության և համապատասխան ազգային և միջազգային շահագրգիռ կողմերի միջև երկխոսության խթանմանը և ներգրավմանը

Human Rights House Foundation (HRHF) condemns the actions undertaken by the Azerbaijani authorities against peaceful protesters in Baku on 1 December 2021. HRHF calls on the Azerbaijani authorities to immediately stop on-going attacks against freedom of assembly and expression, release those detained on 1 December’s peaceful protests, and immediately and thoroughly investigate all alleged acts of torture and ill-treatment.  

Human Rights House Foundation joins a statement from 80+ organisations and independent experts urging the EU to place Israeli NSO Group on its global sanctions list as well as to take all appropriate action to prohibit the sale, transfer, export, import and use of NSO Group technologies, as well as the provision of services that support NSO Group’s products, until adequate human rights safeguards are in place.

Pavel Seviarynets is a writer, an opposition politician, co-founder of the Belarusian Christian Democracy party. He was detained on 7 June 2020 and held in pre-trial detention for several months before being charged with organising mass riots. In May 2021, he was sentenced to seven years in a penal colony. He is serving his sentence in Shklov in eastern Belarus.

Pavel Mazko is a 19-year-old from Brest in south-western Belarus. He has been in pre-trial detention since 23 March 2021, charged in connection to his participation in the post-election protests in August 2020.

It became known on November 11, 2021, that the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation filed a lawsuit to wind up Memorial International for allegedly systematic violations of the law on “foreign agents”. The organization is accused of not labelling its materials with a reference to its “foreign agent” status.

Andrei Aliaksandrau is a journalist and human rights defender. He had been a media manager and deputy director of the Belarusian Private News Agency (BelaPAN) prior to his detention. In the 2010s, he lived and worked in the UK where he studied media management at the University of Westminster, before taking on roles at Index on Censorship and Article 19. Andrei was detained on 12 January 2021 alongside his partner, Irina Zlobina. He is being accused of financing the protests in Minsk by paying fines and reimbursing the costs for detention in temporary detention facilities for those detained during protests in Minsk. He has since been charged with high treason and, if convicted, could face up to 15 years in prison. He remains in pre-trial detention.

Human Rights House Foundation (HRHF) and Human Rights House Tbilisi (HRHT) call on the Georgian authorities to act to protect and promote the Freedoms of Expression and Assembly in Georgia and engage substantively with human rights defenders, including Elene Khoshtaria, exercising these rights.

HRHF joins dozens of organisations in a joint letter addressed to the President of the UN Human Rights Council, Ambassador of Austria to the UN in Geneva, Director-General of the United Nations at Geneva, and all Members and Observers of the UN Human Rights Council.

Hanna Vishniak is a volunteer with Telegram channel “Drivers-97”. The channel, which has 5,000 subscribers, was initially set up to facilitate communication that would help bring people and resources where they were needed. Hanna was detained on 28 October 2020 and held in pre-trial detention in Minsk. On 4 June 2021, she was convicted of “organising and preparing activities that grossly violate public order” and sentenced to 2.5 years in prison. She was then taken to a “correctional colony” in Gomel in south-eastern Belarus.