Oak Foundation commits to protecting and promoting the human rights of all people. It aims to bridge the gap between human rights standards and the lived experiences of individuals. The foundation supports the efforts that hold rights abusers accountable, and it champions the fundamental rights of individuals, ensuring justice and supporting those who defend these rights.
The grant program focuses on several key areas to support human rights: closing the impunity gap for human rights violations, upholding fundamental legal guarantees against arbitrary detention and torture, ensuring the rights of LGBTI communities, and protecting human rights defenders. The program supports efforts through documentation, strategic litigation, campaigns, and outreach. It also aims to empower human rights defenders with enhanced physical and digital security, and effectiveness through technological tools. The foundation provides core, project, and seed funding in multi-year grants, emphasizing work that upholds international human rights law, promotes systemic change, supports activism, builds partner capacity, and strengthens the global human rights movement.