IWMF Grants for Reproductive Health, Rights and Justice in the Americas 2026 – YOA

Deadline: August 2, 2026

Applications are open for the IWMF Grants for Reproductive Health, Rights and Justice in the Americas 2026. The International Women’s Media Foundation is happy to offer grants to assist reporting centered on reproductive rights in Latin America and the Caribbean and the United States. These grants assist reporting of untold tales surrounding points that impression individuals’s every day lives in the area.

A powerful desire might be given to multimedia reporting groups specializing in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile, in addition to transnational reporting groups exploring the connections of extremely-proper teams and their hyperlinks to U.S.-based organizations and international networks. This additionally consists of proposals that discover the following themes:

• Exportation of governance fashions influencing leaders overseas by means of deregulation, expanded govt energy, and weakened public establishments. 
• Digital media as organizing infrastructure used to construct cross-border anti-rights political networks. 
• Gender and reproductive rights as a central battleground for advancing broader authoritarian agenda. 
• Austerity framed as financial reform that disproportionately harms susceptible communities. 
• Financial and institutional networks coordinating funding, messaging, and political methods throughout international locations. 
• Crime and migration narratives used to justify expanded surveillance, militarization, and govt authority. 
• Cross-border adaptation of methods and messaging tailor-made to native political contexts. 
• Investigative journalism as a key lens for tracing hyperlinks between funding, establishments, media, and political actors. 
• Democratic establishments beneath strain by means of the erosion of democratic norms, rights, and institutional safeguards. 

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• Grants will fluctuate relying on the want, scope, and location of the mission. Grant funds could also be used to cowl journey and logistics, safety prices, insurance coverage, and different reporting bills.

Eligibility

• This OPPORTUNITY is open to ladies and nonbinary journalists.
• Applicants could also be freelance or employees journalists and might apply individually or as part of a staff.
• Professional journalism should be the applicant’s main career.
• Applicants should have three (3) or extra years {of professional} journalism expertise. Internships don’t rely towards skilled expertise.
• Applicant should be capable of present proof of curiosity from an editor or have a confirmed monitor document of publication in outstanding media retailers.
• Applicants might apply in English or Spanish. The revealed work could be in any language.

Application

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to IWMF Grants.