Our mission
Championing access to justice
Just Access exists to champion the right of every person to access to justice — 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
Innovative Strategic Litigation
We take strategically chosen cases to court to defend human rights.
Empowering Education
We educate and inspire through our blog and our podcast.
Persuasive Advocacy
We represent civil society at the UNCAC, the UNODC and the ICC coalition.
What that looks like in practice
What we do
- International and domestic litigation
- Legal assistance and representation
- Development of legal strategies
- Individual and collective legal actions
- Legal research
- Legal training and education
With
- UN Human Rights Council
- UN treaty bodies
- Special Procedures
- Regional human rights courts
- Domestic criminal law systems
- NGOs
- Academic institutions
To achieve
- Implementation of human rights standards in the relevant legal order
- Change of patterns of systemic infringements of human rights
- Exposing of structural injustice
- Empowerment through knowledge of international justice and international law
- Independence of the judiciary worldwide