Funding for Human Rights Activists/Writers under the Hellman/Hammett Grant

The Hellman/Hammett Grant is for writers, but even human rights activists who have been writing on issues and face the threat of persecution can also apply.

– The grants are made possible by the estate of the American playwright Lillian Hellman with funds set up in her name and that of her long-time companion, the novelist Dashiell Hammett.

– Ms. Hellman was prompted by her experiences during the anti-communist hysteria of the 1950s, when she and Hammett were interrogated about their political beliefs and affiliations before Congressional committees. Hellman suffered professionally and had trouble finding work for a number of years. Hammett served time in prison.”

– There are grants available between $500 and $10,000 and human rights writers or activists suffering threats, harassment, assaults, torture, imprisonment etc can be nominated for the grant. Nominations should be made using the application form available at the IFEX website.

Details to be submitted:

• biographical information about the nominee;
• a list of the nominees’ published writings;
• a statement about the political persecution suffered by the nominee and how these experiences relate to his or her writing;
• a statement about financial need.

Deadline submit the nominations: 17th December

For More Information, Kindly Visit; Hammett Grant for Human Rights Activists

Apply for Hammett Grant for Human Rights Activists

Funding for Human Rights Activists/Writers under the Hellman/Hammett Grant

The Hellman/Hammett Grant is for writers, but even human rights activists who have been writing on issues and face the threat of persecution can also apply.

– The grants are made possible by the estate of the American playwright Lillian Hellman with funds set up in her name and that of her long-time companion, the novelist Dashiell Hammett.

– Ms. Hellman was prompted by her experiences during the anti-communist hysteria of the 1950s, when she and Hammett were interrogated about their political beliefs and affiliations before Congressional committees. Hellman suffered professionally and had trouble finding work for a number of years. Hammett served time in prison.”

– There are grants available between $500 and $10,000 and human rights writers or activists suffering threats, harassment, assaults, torture, imprisonment etc can be nominated for the grant. Nominations should be made using the application form available at the IFEX website.

Details to be submitted:

• biographical information about the nominee;
• a list of the nominees’ published writings;
• a statement about the political persecution suffered by the nominee and how these experiences relate to his or her writing;
• a statement about financial need.

Deadline submit the nominations: 17th December

For More Information, Kindly Visit; Hammett Grant for Human Rights Activists

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Many people across the world have expressed mixed reactions about the content of the video about LRA war and its commander Joseph Kony being played in USA and Europe. Some Ugandans and Africans have welcomed USA’s interests in ending the bloody LRA war.

But others complain that when Joseph Kony was maiming people in the northern Uganda, killing them, forcing them out of their homes for years, kidnapping people, selling young girls and boys as slaves and at one time forcing some village to cook corpses and then forced them to eat them and then summarily killed everyone in South Sudan, the Americans and Europeans were almost mute and could only send in help in form of military trainers to the UPDF.

Now when Joseph Kony is no threat, the Americans have taken an active interest in him but some Ugandans suspect that the Americans might be targeting new oil discoveries in northern Uganda. It is rumoured that there is huge oil deposits in some parts of Northern Uganda.

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Security sources in Uganda tell us that the Al Qaeda and Al Shabaab rebels plan to use East African countries through the links they have with East African rebel groups like interahamwe, LRA and ADF. Al Qaeda and Al Shabaab want to bomb all East African states for their refusal to urge Burundi and Uganda to pull out their troops from Somalia. Uganda and Burundi took the their troops to Somalia on a peace keeping mission.

Following this development the East African security chiefs met in Kampala yesterday to design measures of how they will tame the security threats from Al Qaeda and Al Shabaab.

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The song ‘Nabuulo’ is in praise of Bukenya’s mother for giving birth to the former Vice President who is currently seen as an upcoming pillar in the country’s politics and a growing threat to the ruling National Resistance Movement government.

We hear that Bukenya has coughed in millions of money into the formation of this album. The full names of Bukenya’s mother are Francesca Nabuulo, a Muganda by tribe and Bukenya is her only son in life.

Bukenya is going to be the second richest man in Uganda to have hired a musician to compose a song in praise of his mother. The first one was Charles Mbire who hired Bobi Wine and Juliana Kanyomozi to produce ‘Maama Mbire’ hit in praise of his mother.

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What has been rumoured is now confirmed. The embattled Ugandan former Vice President, Prof. Gilbert Balibaseka Bukenya is to appear in Iryn Namubiru’s ‘Nabuulo’ song video.

The song ‘Nabuulo’ is in praise of Bukenya’s mother for producing the former Vice President who is currently seen as an upcoming pillar in the country’s politics and a growing threat to the ruling National Resistance Movement government.

We hear that Bukenya has coughed in millions of money into the formation of this album. The full names of Bukenya’s mother are Francesca Nabuulo, a Muganda by tribe and Bukenya is her only son in life.

Bukenya is going to be the second richest man in Uganda to have hired a musician to compose a song in praise of his mother. The first one was Charles Mbire who hired Bobi Wine and Juliana Kanyomozi to produce ‘Maama Mbire’ hit in praise of his mother.

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