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The Human Rights Campaign Foundation on Tuesday announced it has awarded grants to 18 LGBTQ rights groups around the world.

A press release notes the groups will receive up to $5,000 through its Global Small Grants program. The recipients include:

• LighT in Central Asia

• Más Igualdad Perú

• The Eastern Caribbean Alliance for Diversity and Equality

• XY Spectrum in Serbia

• Lesbian Intersex Trans and Other Extensions in Malawi

• Right Side Human Rights Defender NGO in Armenia

• The Blue Diamond Society in Nepal

• The Barbados LGBTQ+ Coalition

• Sin Etiquetas +593 in Ecuador

• Icebreakers Uganda

• Equal Ground in Sri Lanka

• The Equal Asia Foundation in Thailand

• The Taiwan Tongzhi (LGBTQ+) Hotline Association

• Key Watch Ghana

• South Trans Voice in Morocco

The press release notes this year’s grant priorities included “projects centering LGBTQI+ people who are racial, religious or ethnic minorities, have a disability, communities disproportionately impacted by climate change, or who have experienced displacement.” The HRC Foundation also “sought to assist programs working to focus on increasing trans and/or intersex leadership or advocacy and those generally creating more inclusive access to services or other institutions of daily life, including engaging employers/businesses or faith institutions as allies for equality.”

Sean Sih-Cheng Du of the Taiwan Tongzhi (LGBTQ+ Hotline Association said the grant will allow his organization to expand its campaign that seeks to make “workplaces in Taiwan more diverse and inclusive.”

HRC launched the Global Small Grants Program in 2020.

Tuesday’s announcement coincides with International Human Rights Day, which commemorates the U.N. General Assembly’s ratification of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on Dec. 10, 1948.

President-elect Donald Trump’s election last month sparked concern among LGBTQ activists and advocacy groups in the U.S. and around the world. The incoming president has nominated U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio

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