Resources to support journalist safety in Europe

Support: Living expenses

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    Living expenses
    Assistance Desk: Individual Support
    Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) – Reporters Without Borders International
    Resolution of most urgent needs if you decide to flee abroad because of threats and persecution. Financial and administrative support for families of journalists to cope with the consequences of the reprisals to which their loved-ones have been exposed.
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    Living expenses
    Documenting Ukraine
    The Institute for Human Sciences (IWM)
    Documenting Ukraine is awarding one-time project grants of 5000 EUR.
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    Living expenses
    Emergency Assistance
    Journalisten helfen Journalisten (JhJ)
    Subsistence costs, support for family
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    Living expenses
    Emergency Assistance Program (EAP)
    Freedom House
    Frontline Defenders (FLD)
    Humanitarian assistance and dependent support Equipment replacement if confiscated or damaged
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    Living expenses
    Emergency Fund
    Civil Rights Defenders
    Humanitarian support
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    Living expenses
    Emergency grant for human rights defenders at risk
    ProtectDefenders.eu
    Emergency financial support for humanitarian assistance (including family support)
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    Living expenses
    Emergency material support to human rights defenders at risk
    OMCT World Organisation Against Torture
    Humanitarian assistance (including family support)
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    Living expenses
    Gene Roberts Emergency fund
    Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)
    Basic living expenses
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    Living expenses
    General Assistance Fund
    Rory Peck Trust (RPT)
    Financial support for emergency subsistence costs and equipment replacement
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    Living expenses
    Incident Emergency Funding
    Digital Defenders Partnership (DDP)
    Replacement of professional equipment and journalistic material (hardware or software) which has been taken, lost or stolen as a consequence of the type of work
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    Living expenses
    Keep Ukrainian Media Going
    The Fix
    First priority funding: Protection and media equipment purchases and delivery to Ukraine (here is a list of supplies – we are delivering via Poland and Romania) Direct operational and financial support to media in Ukraine (e.g., covering IT costs, insurance, transport, and purchase of supplies) Long-term needs: Support for media staff relocation to EU countries Setting up offices and accommodation of media staff in EU countries
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    Living expenses
    Le Fonds d’Urgence
    Agir ensemble pour les droits humains (AEDH)
    Subsistence costs to meet most basic needs for you and/or your family in exceptional situations
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    Living expenses
    PEN Emergency Fund
    PEN International
    PEN Nederland
    Financial support for towards general living expenses up to 1500 EUR
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    Living expenses
    Practical support fund / Reporters Respond
    Free Press Unlimited (FPU)
    Subsistence costs: short term support if you are not able to work, or costs to temporarily flee an unsafe or vulnerable situation Family support: temporary support for family members of journalists who are unable to work, who are imprisoned, or who are deceased; Professional equipment: digital tools like VPNs for online protection and work materials in exceptional cases
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    Living expenses
    Protection Grants
    Frontline Defenders (FLD)
    Family assistance for imprisoned HRDs or family members who are at risk because of a HRD’s activities
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    Living expenses
    Safety Fund
    International Federation of Journalists (IFJ)
    Living expenses and family support Education costs
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    Living expenses
    Solidarność Dziennikarska stabilna i profesjonalna
    Polish Journalists Association – Stowarzyszenie Dziennikarzy Polskich (SDP)
    allowance for treatment for retired journalists
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    Living expenses
    The Safety Fund
    International Media Support (IMS)
    Family support in cases where the journalist has been killed or rendered otherwise incapable of supporting the family
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    Living expenses
    Writers Emergency Assistance Fund (WEAF)
    American Society of Journalists and Authors (asja)
    The Writers Emergency Assistance Fund helps established freelance writers who, because of illness, disability, a natural disaster, or an extraordinary professional crisis are unable to work.