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Astraea's International Emergency Fund is a rapid-response grantmaking mechanism, providing timely support for organizations to address urgent and strategic emerging political opportunities and crises affecting LGBTI communities. Some grants have been omitted from this listing, reflecting safety concerns of grantees.

SMUG—Sexual Minorities Uganda (Kampala, Uganda) Grant supports safe accommodations and security measures for Rwandan LGBTI activists following a period of sensationalist Rwandan media exposure and arrests after an LGBTI convening in Nairobi in September 2007. $5,000 A second grant supports safety measures and legal expenses for the court cases of 3 LGBTI human rights activists arrested for engaging in a peaceful protest at the 2008 HIV Implementers Meeting in Uganda in June 2008. $5,000

The Independent Project for Equal Rights (Lagos, Nigeria) Grant supports a meeting of defendants, attorneys and organizations working on LGBTI human rights to determine legal and organizing strategies around the homophobic and transphobic arrests and trials of 18 young men in Bauchi, Nigeria.$10,000

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