Taken from AWID Resource Net, Announcements/Issue 190, Wednesday December 3, 2003

Funding for projects against racism / Office of the High Commissioner for
Human Rights / For more information, please contact: [email protected] [2]

The Anti-Discrimination Unit and the Human Rights Education Team of the
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights are launching a pilot
project that will fund, through small grants (max. US$ 5,000) projects aimed
at promoting respect for diversity. It is our hope that this initiative will
strengthen civil society and youth groups in their efforts to combat racial
discrimination. The project will be implemented in collaboration with UNDP.

Examples of projects eligible for funding - in addition to the ones mentioned
in the project description - are:
-national consultations on NGO and youth participation in the elaboration of
national action plans against racism
-organizing discussions in schools on racism, multi-culturalism and
-respect for diversity
-research projects on aspects racial discrimination
-making leaflets with information of instances to which victims of
discrimination can turn
-information sessions on the themes and the outcome of the World
Conference against Racism in Durban
-training for journalists and advertising agencies aimed at combating
-stereotypes and prejudice in press reporting, entertainment programmes
and advertising
-making a documentary with interviews of victims of racial discrimination
-mobilization campaign for the ratification of international human rights
instruments
-training on how to write a "shadow" report to a United Nations human
rights treaty monitoring body
-writing a publication or newspaper articles on issues of racial
discrimination