EMERGENCY SUPPORT PROGRAM: the results for the entire period of implementation of the program

The Human Rights House Crimea has successfully completed the EMERGENCY SUPPORT PROGRAM for human rights defenders, lawyers, activists and journalists working on human rights protection in Crimea. The program lasted for 19 months and supported more than 30 applications.
Within the program the funding was given for the following:

• psychological aid for HRDs as psychosocial rehabilitation and emotional recovery (retreat) and the psychological aid for the journalists;
  journalists
• the expenses for the attendance by the HRDs of the educational events requisite for their job,
  the legal aid;
• the medical aid (due to the arbitrary detention / due to the deterioration of the state of health because of lack of medical aid at the penitentiaries/ due to the work with the upsetting content);
• tools and devices for professional activity (necessary to keep the non-stop activity while energy outages due to the full-scale aggression / necessary for capacity building of the journalist/human rights projects),
• security measures and the equipment for them,
• relocation
• others

The beneficiaries belong to many categories (women/kids/ IDPs/senior/ disabled/ persons needed relocation/ persons from newly occupied territories/ ethnic minorities).

The ESU project / "Sustainability" program was implemented by the Human Rights Houses Foundation in a consortium of public organisations led by ERIM, in partnership with East Europe Foundation, Human Rights House Tbilisi, Barys Zvozskau Belarusian Human Rights House and the Black Sea Fund for Regional Cooperation under the financial support of the European Union.