Defending Human Rights

Arcadia has historically worked to defend human rights. Grants have been made to programmes that support free and equal societies.

Past Grants include:

The Council for Assisting Refugee Academics (CARA), UK
In 2006, we granted $870,000 to CARA, which has been helping refugee scholars in the UK since 1933. CARA's primary objective is to support refugee aca...
Hope and Homes for Children, UK
In 2006 we Granted $65,000 to help fund employment of Social Workers responsible for finding new homes for displaced children in Romania. Hope and Hom...
Absolute Return for Kids (ARK), South Africa
In May 2006, we granted $465,000 to ARK to support the clinic and medical staff that run an AIDS anti-viral treatment programme in South Africa. ARK p...
The Scholars at Risk Programme, Hebrew University, Israel
In 2006, we gave $1.0 million to the Israeli Institute for Advanced Studies at Hebrew University to initiate a Scholars at Risk Programme in Israel....
Mvule Trust, Uganda
Our grant of $5.0 million to the Mvule Trust provides scholarships for bright, needy Ugandan children to go to secondary school. In 2006, it sent 1303...
The Scholars at Risk Programme, Harvard University, US
We donated $1.0 million to support Harvard’s Scholars at Risk Programme. This programme is part of the wider Scholars at Risk network, based at New Yo...
Human Rights Watch, US
Our grant to Human Rights Watch (HRW) supported women’s rights. For more than 25 years, Human Rights Watch has defended human rights worldwide by exte...