OMCT, including in the framework of the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, provides financial support to human rights defenders and local human rights organisations in need of urgent support, in any region of the world:
· Emergency material support to human rights defenders at risk
OMCT provides material assistance and emergency support to human rights defenders at risk working in the most difficult circumstances, in any region of the world.
Eligible expenses for financial support or direct material support to human rights defenders and human rights organisations include the following: physical security; digital security; communications; capacity building in security; secure transportation; legal support; medical support (including psycho-social support and rehabilitation); social assistance (including family support); support to temporary relocation where necessary; urgent monitoring, reporting and advocacy; etc.
OMCT provides support to local human rights organisations from any region of the world in order to enable them to consolidate their operational activities, allowing them to develop sensitive initiatives and/or sustain their work, as well as to strengthen their capacities to implement local innovative activities and projects to prevent and respond to infringements faced by human rights defenders and their organisations.
· Advocacy grants to human rights organisations from Turkey
OMCT is a member of ProtectDefenders.eu, the European Union Human Rights Defenders Mechanism implemented by international civil society.
