Arab Human Rights Fund

"For more than two decades, human rights activists and organizations in the Arab region called for the establishment of an indigenous fund to support their work to promote and defend human rights. With financial and administrative support from the Ford Foundation, a committee was formed to explore the feasibility of establishing an endowed and sustainable funding agency devoted to supporting long-term efforts to advance human rights and the rule of law.

"The Preparatory Committee, composed of Fateh Azzam, Atallah Kuttab, Amin Mekki Meddani, and Mona Younis, and coordinated by Yousry Moustafa, began its work in 2002. Over the course of the next three years the Committee commissioned a series of studies and consulted widely to determine how best to set up a funding entity inside the region. From the start the Committee envisioned an organization that would both fund promising work and initiatives inside the region and spur others in the region to do the same. Encouraged by their findings and the enthusiastic support received at home and abroad, the Committee laid the foundations for the launch of the Arab Human Rights Fund in 2008."

• Mona Younis, Executive Director

Supporters

The Arab Human Rights Fund is grateful to the following foundations for their partnership and support:

• Ford Foundation
• Open Society Foundations
• Sigrid Rausing Trust
• Oak Foundation
• Network for Social Change
• Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Beirut

Board

Accessed February 2011:

• Fateh Azzam, Board Chair
• May Abboud, Board Secretary
• Atallah Kuttab, Board Treasurer
• Adam Abdelmoula
• Fatima Almana
• Ghanim Alnajjar
• Naima Benwakrim
• Hanny Megally
• Yousry Moustafa
• Leila Zerrougui

The Fund also enjoys the ongoing support and assistance from its Lebanese Local Committee, composed of the following members: May Abboud, May Haddad, Omar Nashabi, and Wadi' Jureidini.

Contact

URL: http://www.ahrfund.org