Fight against impunity and for access to justice

The NHRF prioritises work aimed at ensuring full and equal access to justice, recognizing justice as the key component to combating impunity.

Ensuring access to justice involves facing intricate challenges that arise regardless of national and international laws that formally guarantee the protection of human rights.

In the last three decades, the NHRF has placed programmatic emphasis on addressing issues of grave human rights violations like work against torture, extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances and work for access to justice and the legal system for people affected by armed conflicts, including families of the disappeared and civil society actors that address entrenched practices of impunity.

The right to participation in legal processes and reparations for victims and survivors, as well as ensuring free, legal assistance and psychosocial accompaniment is important work often supported by the NHRF under this strategy.

For Grantseekers

The NHRF’s support projects aimed to improve access to justice and work against impunity in our priority countries.

ISSUES

Many of our grantees have are working to ensure accountability for perpetrators and for institutions that have the power and means to provide remedy and redress for human rights violations against marginalized and vulnerable groups in their communities.

Many work with victims and survivors of conflict and conflict-related extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances.

Changing laws and policies is a long-term effort that involves the contribution of many civil society organisations at local, national and international level. The NHRF is committed to the improvement of the legal protection of civil society and victims of human rights abuses in the countries we work in.

We have supported projects focusing on capacity development, strengthening of networks, legal aid/assistance, advocacy, ensuring victim’s participation in legal processes, alternative justice action, psychosocial accompaniment, documentation, monitoring, and reporting of human rights violations, and more.

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