Grants

Grant awards play a vital role in contributing to innovation in research, teaching, and project development at WCL.

For the last fiscal year (May 1, 2011- April 30, 2012), grant activity resulted in $5M in pledged awards and $4.5M in received awards.  Grants were awarded on a myriad of important topic areas that will:

  • provide training and mentoring to incorporate human rights into the daily work of legal aid attorneys in the United States;
  • create a replicable model to advance in-country follow up and implementation efforts of the work of the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture;
  • shape the global discussion among civil society and government officials on creating an evidence-based, rights-based approach to combating human trafficking;
  • build capacity of NGO’s to address statelessness among persons born in The Bahamas to Haitian parents;
  • gather and disseminate information about women’s health and human rights, including issues of maternal mortality and pre/post-natal care;
  • support research on the national impact of cases in the Inter-American Human Rights system;
  • continue to address the impact, causes and critical consequences of sexual violence in custody through (1) the identification and analysis of the problem of prison rape; (2) training; (3) the development and refinement of agency policy and state law; and (4) the enforcement of law and policy;
  • promote the development/enforcement of international criminal/humanitarian law;
  • contribute to the collection of jurisprudence on gender and international criminal law;
  • educate civil society and government officials on the International and Inter-American Human Rights Systems;
  • support individuals confronted with low-income tax controversies;
  • support the training of law enforcement and advocacy on issues facing immigrant victims of domestic, sexual, and other violence;
  • support the professional development of Fellows and scholarly pursuit of visiting Faculty who bring to the WCL community an exchange of cultural and academic knowledge;
  • provide for the development of a global expert network on copyright limitations, continue the dialogue on public interest intellectual property policy, and work to expand the resource commons in scientific research;
  • mobilize talented law students to teach courses on constitutional law and juvenile justice in public high schools;
  • continue to build a comprehensive online database of laws, legal reforms, and legal challenges related to community water fluoridation in the United States; and
  • evaluate the effectiveness of prescription drug monitoring programs.