our focus areas

HUMAN RIGHTS

  • Human rights, as enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, represent humanity’s highest aspirations, but they are the most basic of guarantees. Our inalienable human rights protect freedom, dignity, equality, and justice. Yet today, these rights are increasingly limited by persistent inequality, systemic injustice, and intersecting crises. We support efforts to defend and expand these rights, challenge discrimination and exclusion, and build societies where every person can fully realise their human dignity and potential.

    “There can be no peace without development, no development without peace, and no lasting peace or sustainable development without respect for human rights and the rule of law.”

    – Jan Eliasson (Former UN Deputy Secretary-General)

  • It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.

CLIMATE JUSTICE

  • Climate justice is the fight of our time. Anthropogenic climate change and unnatural disasters affect everything: Country, health, rights, and futures. It deepens existing injustices and hits hardest those who’ve contributed least. We support those who tackle the root causes of climate change, hold polluters to account, and build just, regenerative systems. There’s no justice on a dying planet.

    “We are sailing the same troubled waters, but in very different boats. Vulnerable countries that contribute the least to climate change suffer the most.”

    - Brianna Fruean (Samoan Environmentalist and activist)

  • It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.

STRENGTHENING DEMOCRACY

  • Democracy is a right and a privilege, and it is under threat around the world. A strong democracy requires an informed and engaged public and a government that is clean, open and accountable. Our work in this area seeks to strengthen democratic institutions along principles of equality and the rule of law. It is critical that communities—especially those historically excluded from public life —have a voice in decisions that affect them.

  • Australian Democracy Network: etc….