Leading Organizations

Seeks to educate young lawyers for the advancement of the spirit of justice and the rule of law in practice for all people.

The organization works to strengthen the relationship between public decision making and social justice. Their main areas of work include transparency and participation in public finance management, poverty reduction, and rights enhancement.

IHRDA has been working since 1998 to strengthen the African human rights system through offering pro bono legal counsel to victims of human rights abuses, conducting training workshops, and other capacity building activities for lawyers and other human rights defenders.

WANEP aims to provide West Africa with the means for its people to live in freedom and control their destiny. They contribute research, assistance to NGOs and other actors, and implement programs towards that end.

It supports open public financial management systems through research, trainings, and capacity strengthening. It promotes public participation in the review of policies, the understanding of budgetary legislation, budget analysis, and budget tracking.

PILDAT is an independent, non-partisan and not-for-profit indigenous think tank focussed on political and public policy research and legislative strengthening. As an indigenous institution, Its mission is to strengthen democracy and democratic institutions in Pakistan.

Established in 1987, LRC works for the recognition and protection of the rights of indigenous peoples and upland rural poor communities to land and other natural resources. The Center seeks to bridge the gap between the informal articulation of the aspirations of these marginalized communities on the one hand, and the formal, technical, bureaucratic and legal language used by the state.

It aims to supplement and complement the development efforts of the Government. It was established with the aim of increasing HIV/AIDS services through addressing the shortage of skilled health professionals in rural underserved settings.

Officially registered in 2015 and based in London, it works to advance and advocate for the human rights of minorities, as well as religious freedom in Burma.

It provides medical, psychosocial, and legal services, for survivors of GBV in Freetown, Kenema, and Kono. It offers a space where survivors of SGBV can access clinical care, counselling, and referrals to key service providers.

The Centre for Criminology was founded at the University of Hong Kong to develop criminological research, education, and criminal justice policy, as well as enhance the effectiveness of law enforcement, promote crime prevention, and the treatment of offenders.

Works to assist prisoners and to advocate for the abolishment of the death penalty in Singapore.

Works to promote the rights of girls and women in Malawi through educational programs on health, sexual and reproductive rights, economic empowerment. It has also been the leading organization for the end of child marriage in Malawi.

It is a Pan-African organization that monitors performance throughout the governance chain and offers capacity building to elected representative governmental institutions as well as civil society organizations.

Works to increase the democratic participation and political leadership of women through local initiatives.

It is an NGO that focuses in the areas of awareness, advocacy, capacity building, research and development in order to foster political participation, good governance, economic growth, human rights, rule of law, youth and women empowerment.

It aims to build a progressive and democratic society that upholds freedom of expression, gender equality, and social justice. It offers legal advice services to women and men in accordance with the Islamic Family Law and the Syariah Criminal Offences Law.

Works to promote democracy, through accountability mechanisms and the organization of dialogue between society and political actors.

2019 World Justice Challenge Applicant - Project Title: YouthLab: Championing the Voice of Youth Deprived of their Liberty
Works to provide art and music therapy in prisons, and to accompany offenders on the path to economic and social reintegration through business ideas developed while in incarceration.
WJP Program Grantee Title: Construction of Society Through Hip-Hop (2013-2014)

Maitri's work is organized under two main categories: violence against women and migrant workers. The organization has been addressing the issue of violence against women and acts as a catalyst to enable access to basic rights to some of the most marginalized and vulnerable populations in India including; women who are at the risk of facing gender-based violence, destitute and elderly women/widows and migrant workers and their families in urban environments.

A not for profit law and policy organization focusing on issues such as police power, government accountability, and indigenous disadvantage. Its strategies include: legal assitance, research, and community engagement.

Aims to strengthen women's political participation, inform institutions on gender inequality, and restore women's bodily integrity

It promotes the efficient administration of justice, contributing to the development of jurisprudence, the respect for human rights, and the rule of law. It advances legal education and provides free legal aid to those who are economically and socially underprivileged.

Works to train legal practitioners and advance the rule of law through collaborative approaches and high level symposia such as JUSTRAC.

Judges working to promote the rights of women judges, women and children in the legal system in Malawi, and strengthening the accessibility of Malawi's legal system.