Our mission
Championing access to justice
Everyone has a right to justice. Just Access works to put that right within reach, through education and outreach, advocacy, and strategic litigation.
Access to justice is a right on paper in most of the world and a practical impossibility for most of the people who need it. Closing that gap is the whole of our work.
Three ways we work
Strategic litigation
We choose cases that can change the law for more than one person, and we take them to court.
Education and outreach
We explain how human rights law works, on the blog and on the podcast, in language anyone can follow.
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Advocacy
We hold civil-society seats at the UNCAC, the UNODC and the ICC coalition, and we speak there for the people we work with.
What that looks like in practice
What we do
- International and domestic litigation
- Legal assistance and representation
- Building legal strategy
- Cases brought by one person, and by many
- Legal research
- Training and teaching
Who we work with
- UN Human Rights Council
- UN treaty bodies
- Special procedures
- Regional human rights courts
- Domestic criminal law systems
- NGOs
- Academic institutions
What it's for
- Human rights standards applied in the legal system where they matter
- An end to the patterns behind violations that keep repeating
- Structural injustice named in public
- People who know enough international law to use it themselves
- Courts that stay independent, everywhere