© August 2019 WHERE WE HELP “I really appreciate the attention We have focused our work on authoritarian and transforming regimes since the 1990s. I received from your team. Your We are currently cooperating with our partners in the following countries and regions: care warmed my heart and gave me hope that I must live and try

to find a way out of my situation. | since 1997 Not only did you save my life – | since 2003 you helped me to remain human. | since 2006 Thanks to Your support, I am safe, TRANSNISTRIA I can work and think about the | since 2009 future; I was very lucky to receive professional support from your EGYPT | since 2011 team at that difficult time,” LIBYA | since 2011

AZERBAIJAN | since 2013

says a defender of human rights NICARAGUA | since 2014 from , whom we helped with urgent relocation. VENEZUELA | since 2014

VIETNAM | since 2015

ARMENIA | since 2016 “It’s an honor for us, our HONDURAS | since 2016 families, and our country. I feel a responsibility to continue what ECUADOR | since 2016 “People in Need was the first we have started. My dream is CENTRAL | since 2017 international organization to put a Nicaragua that will be built faith in us, back at the time when on equality, with a guarantee the project was still in its infancy,” of freedom, justice, democracy, CENTRE FOR and the rule of law,” says the Venezuelan journalist Albor Rodríguez from La Vida De Nos. Thanks to HUMAN RIGHTS our help, independent Venezuelan journalists says Francisca Ramírez – leader from the La Vida De Nos initiative could of a Nicaraguan democratic movement compile and publish the stories of eight whose determination to stand up against PEOPLE IN NEED AND DEMOCRACY land appropriation and an authoritarian political prisoners in Venezuela. The project Throughout more than 25 years In 2018, the following donors supported the work regime has inspired human rights defenders went on to be nominated for the prestigious of its existence, People in Need has of the Centre for Human Rights and Democracy: Gabriel García Márquez Journalism Award. throughout her country. become one of the biggest non-profit Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the organizations in Central . European Commission EuropeAid (EIDHR) In addition to foreign humanitarian aid NED – National Endowment for Democracy and support of human rights, it also People in Need‘s Club of Friends “I escaped to Georgia from the danger I faced in Azerbaijan, targets education and helps people living Delegacao da Uniao Europeia no Brasil (IcSP) People in Need but even there, I continued receiving threats because of my in social exclusion in Czech Republic. USAID work. Thanks to People in Need I could get to safety. My stay Contact: International Women‘s Media Foundation (IWMF) in helped me get my mental well-being back,” Člověk v tísni, Šafaříkova 24, Freedom House 120 00 Praha 2 Bacardi Family Foundation [email protected] MOTT FOUNDATION Tel.: +420 226 200 414, OAK Foundation says the young Azerbaijani journalist whom we helped in 2018 clovekvtisni.cz/en/human-rights | homohomini.net thanks to People in Need’s Club of Friends. Fax: +420 226 200 401 OSIAF (OSI ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION) www.peopleinneed.cz The Sigrid Rausing Trust SUPPORT DIRECT AID TO THE 1. OF CIVIL SOCIETY 2. POLITICALLY PERSECUTED 3. ADVOCACY

People in Need sees civic engagement as a pillar of a free One of the pillars of our work is direct help to human As a part of our activities in the human and democratic society, whereas repressive regimes stifle right defenders in countries with repressive governments. rights field, we strive to increase awareness and punish independent activities of its citizens. That is why They are the most common targets of smear campaigns, of both Czech and international societies we support independent organizations and initiatives, harassment and persecution as a means of enforcing their about the problems people face in countries pro-democratic activists, journalists and human rights lawyers. silence; oftentimes they are tortured and jailed. People in Need with repressive governments. We hold We try to support them in their professional development and help helps lawyers, independent journalists, bloggers, students and international meetings, organize advocacy trips, them in their pursuit of human rights activities. activists who aren’t indifferent to the fate of their country, believe and initiate visits by representatives of democratic in the value of basic human rights and are persecuted for their activities. opposition from target countries. We also prepare discussions, campaigns, cultural events and happenings for the general public in the Czech Republic and abroad. We worked with HOMO HOMINI 385 representatives We helped 681 persecuted Every year People in Need confers the Homo Homini of civil society. award to individuals who have greatly contributed LIFELINE individuals and their families. to the promotion of human rights and democracy People in Need is a member of a consortium and nonviolent solutions to political conflicts. of seven international NGOs “Lifeline” that provides 78 Human rights lawyers support to human rights organizations and activists Politically persecuted 303 ONE WORLD 133 Independent activists from all over the world that face unjust restrictions Political prisoners and their families 36 One World is one of the cornerstones of the People 174 Journalists from their governments. Victims of state repression 342 in Need organisation. Since its inception in 1999, it has become the most important festival of its kind OTHER ACTIVITIES in the world. The One World festival travels around Every year we participate in and organize side We worked with 132 NGOs We helped to release 18 political prisoners in Honduras. the entire Czech Republic. events at the biggest European human rights We published a report about the psychological effects of persecution and torture Since 2007, PIN has organized the festival ONE WORLD conference, the Human Dimension Azerbaijan Cuba Egypt Libya Russia Venezuela in Cuba, and we provided psychosocial and legal assistance to 356 people. BRUSSELS. The festival opens up the subjects of current Implementation Meeting (HDIM). In Egypt, we supported lawyers who helped more than 800 people human rights issues in the heart of the European Central Asia Ecuador Honduras Nicaragua Ukraine Vietnam to fight against violations of human rights. Every year, our guests attend panel discussions institutions through screening of documentary films at the Forum 2000 conference and participate and subsequent discussions with experts, filmmakers in the accompanying Festival of Democracy. For our partners we organize these activities: We assist in the following ways: and human rights activists. We are part of the independent platform DEMAS, in which 11 Czech non-governmental organizations The for the year 2018 was received by the Nicaraguan farmer, Francisca have been working together to support democracy, Ramírez, a woman who brought together human rights and civil society in the Czech Republic hundreds of thousands of people and offered them and abroad. a vision of a more free and democratic society. Relocation Critical medical We are the co-founders of the EU-Russia Civil Study visits & internships Micro-grants The One World Festival was visited by a total Legal aid Material aid treatment of 125,947 visitors in Prague, Czech regions Society Forum, a platform for cooperation Seminars & trainings Psychological and Brussels, screening altogether 119 films between Russian and European NGOs. counselling and hosting 187 guests.

Numeric data from 2018.