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Nearly two-thirds of Kenyan girls experience sexual assault. In 2012 the Kenyan High Court found that police failure to enforce existing rape law had created a climate of impunity. This project is ...

In 2007, the Malawi High Court struck down the mandatory death penalty on the grounds that it violated the accused’s constitutional rights to a fair trial and access to justice. This project was ...

The State of Assam experiences the highest maternal mortality rate in India. Health concerns are compounded on tea plantations where workers face substandard working conditions and a lack of access to ...

In 2015, 300 families who lived on the islands and banks of the Xingu River, state of Pará, Brazil, were forcibly displaced from their homes to make way for the reservoir of Belo Monte hydroelectric ...

Indigenous populations throughout the United States experience some of the greatest health inequalities. This project is the first US collaboration delivering health-impacting civil legal assistance ...

This program developed transparency and ethics tools for a pilot sample of small and medium enterprises to improve their corporate governance and competitiveness. In addition to these tools, Proética ...

Weak law enforcement and uneven legal protection for children in many Latin American countries compromise efforts to fight commercial sexual exploitation. This program brought together 26 civil ...

Marginalized groups in Malawi face significant obstacles in accessing the formal justice system, particularly because of congested courts and a lack of pro-bono lawyers. This program addressed these ...

To encourage youth to play an active role in the social and economic development of Senegal, this program is developing a debate curriculum and competition to mobilize students to create community ...

This program is building the capacity of the newly created National Office for Combatting Fraud and Corruption (OFNAC) by providing a framework for its work and creating synergies between anti ...

This program seeks to address poor access to information in Senegal and citizens’ lack of knowledge about their right to information. MIANPBG has established a legislation steering committee to ...

Many women and children in Senegal – particularly those in rural and marginalized communities – lack access to civil vital records necessary to claim their legally guaranteed rights and benefits. To ...