Amnesty International USA (Kampala, Uganda) for safety, security and legal coordination related to the court case of Ugandan human rights defender Juliet Victor Mukasa. $5,000

International Centre for Reproductive Health & Sexual Rights (Minna, Nigeria) for a coalition strategy meeting in Abuja regarding women's and sexual rights and for responding to challenges and safety concerns resulting from the Nigerian government's targeting of same-sex marriage and LGBT organizing. $2,000

International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (New York, NY) protects and advances the human rights of all people and communities subject to discrimination or abuse on the basis of sexual orientation/expression, gender identity/expression or HIV status. Grant supported legal, medical and other relief assistance related to the case of 11 men arbitrarily arrested and detained in Cameroon in 2005. $2,000

Equal Ground Pasifik (Suva, Fiji Islands), formerly the Sexual Minorities Project of Women's Action for Change, was at the forefront of raising a successful constitutional challenge to the colonial-era sodomy law in Fiji. Grant supported emergency legal defense and organizing costs around the McCoskar/Nandan sodomy trial, which resulted in Fiji's High Court declaring the nation's sodomy law unconstitutional and overturning the convictions of the two defendants. $2,000