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By funding organizations like Amnesty International, HAQ Child Rights and Human Rights Watch, the Krishna and Sandra Rao Foundation has become a truly global movement. The Foundation has turned the tide in favour of fairness and justice by addressing inequalities arising from the ever increasing movement of people within and across borders and the ongoing crises and conflicts in different parts of the world.

Since 2012 our Foundation has supported Amnesty International’s work. Our support has provided crucial investment in realising human rights particularly for women and vulnerable people.

Since 2012, Amnesty International moved its International Secretariat (IS) operations from London to 14 strategically-located Regional Offices from which they are able to respond quickly to events wherever they happen. With its stronger global presence, AI is working closer with local partners and activists on the frontline of change, using its communications and campaigning expertise to boost their efforts. It has found new ways of engaging with activists and communities outside Europe and North America, to build visible and articulate movements where it matters most. And they are incorporating new technologies, driving activism through social networking, and using these technologies to improve the way in which human rights violations are reported. Our Foundation’s contribution has been very important in helping Amnesty International achieve this.

Krishna and Sandra Rao Foundation also funded Human Rights Watch to produce a Report, BREAKING THE SILENCE • child sexual abuse in India, that looks at a number of detailed case studies to examine the steps taken by the government to prevent abuse, how it responds when it receives allegations of abuse, and how it treats victims after they are abused.

HAQ- Centre for Child Rights

Through our support, HAQ took a comprehensive national level study on child trafficking and published the report during the national Public Hearing on 22nd June 2016. Additionally, 20 children rescued from trafficking were provided with emergency support.

Mother’s Educational Society for Rural Orphan – (MESRO)

With our support, MESRO organised a consultation amongst Dalit leaders from thirteen of the twenty states practicing devdasi culture in Vijaywada for the creation of a pressure group to put an end to this horrible practice of gender discrimination and sexual slavery across the country.