Leading Organizations

2019 World Justice Challenge Applicant - Project Title: Justice Collaboratory - Project Title: Access to Justice in Rural and Remote Communities
Funded by Legal Aid Ontario, it is an initiative of the Boldness Project and the Rural and Remote Community Legal Clinics. It aims to solve the legal needs of people living in rural and remote communities in Canada.

It is comprised of nine international organizations that have worked with displaced and conflict-affected people since 1984. It provides support to approximately 92,000 Burmese refugees located in nine camps in western Thailand. It also supports recovery and community-driven development in southeast Myanmar.

It is a coalition of civil society organizations committed to monitoring budget policy, budget revenue, and budget allocations. It promotes the implementation of transparent and accountable budgeting systems as an essential tool for the achievement of social justice and equity in Sierra Leone.

It is a collective action organization that combats corruption affecting the business sector by connecting companies, chambers of commerce, and industry groups with the government. It also maps corruption to identify where it is occurring within the business community.

It is an arbitration center.

Founded in 2001, KPH works to advance the rights of LGBT persons and their relatives through political, social, and legal advocacy, as well as creating and implementing educational solutions for various professional groups and building a broad Alliance movement.

It was formed by a group of concerned citizens committed to stopping all forms of corruption. It promotes transparency, accountability, and democratic principles.

Founded in 1919, it is an independent national volunteer organization that works to improve the criminal justice system in Canada. It fosters crime prevention programs, has reparation initiatives for crime victims, and educates the publich through research and publications.

It is an initiative of the Centre for Applied Research in Mental Health and Addiction (CARMHA). It is comprised of organizations and individuals advocating for an evidence-based public health driven drug policy in Canada respectful of human rights.

It is dedicated to the protection of public lands and water, and ensures that public parks are managed to protect their biodiversity. It promotes awareness and understanding of ecological principles through education.

It carries out research and provides support and education to survivors and stakeholders of serious crimes. It fosters public awareness of victims' issues, conducts victimology research, and promotes professional exchanges.

It is the development wing of the Catholic Diocese of Banjul. It is aimed at achieving a more humane and just society irrespective of creed, race, or ideology. Its main areas of intervention include HIV and AIDS care and support, malaria prevention, water and sanitation, agriculture and horticulture, and peace-building, among others.

It facilitates and empowers individuals to cultivate sustainable and peaceful communities in Northern Ghana by offering innovative education and training in peacebuilding, social justice, democratic values, and reconciliation.

CEDICE defends individual freedoms, property rights, limits to the government, and the search for peace. It monitors and raises awareness concerning policies that violate the freedoms and rights of citizens, and serves as a watchdog on issues such as high government spending, private property violations, and the rule of law in Venezuela.

Founded in 1999, CAFCA contributes to the full application of integral justice in Guatemala, providing technical inputs, advisement, and support for victims of human rights violations and State institutions. Their areas of work include forensic research, criminal justice analysis, and legal assistance on human rights.

Founded in 1995 to protect human rights and justice, it advocates for the abolition of the death penalty and for the improvement of conditions for prisoners in Japan. Their work includes research, educational programs about the death penalty system, and reintegration initiatives.

Monitors the human rights situation in Morocco with respect to its relationship with the democratic process, and analyses the implementation of human rights at the level of public policies.

CEJIS works to strengthen and coordinate civil society to achieve structural changes and the achievement of human rights with an emphasis on the collective rights of indigenous and peasant communities. Areas of intervention include indigenous autonomy, litigation for human rights, governance and territories, and gender.

It upholds the principles of good governance and transparency by developing anti-corruption initiatives, and advocating for forest governance and the right to freedom of expression.

Founded in 1995 at the University of Hong Kong's Faculty of Law, it aims to make the law more accessible to the community and more effective, and it works to advance knowledge on public law and human rights issues primarily from the perspectives of international and comparative law and practice.

It is a membership body that works to provide education, as well as preventive and corrective responses to violence through consulting services. Their main areas of expertise are peace building and reconciliation.

It works to facilitate strategic analysis and capacity building for sustainable democracy and development in West Africa. Their main areas of work are governmental accountability and the prevention of violent extremism.

It fosters democracy and provides training and educational services to institutions and organizations involved in the reform process. Their work in governance focuses on improving the government's policies, management, service provision, and accountability.

It supports high-quality HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis care and treatment in Nigeria. They work with a family-focused approach aimed at increasing local ownership, funding effectiveness, and strengthening of local talent.

It aims to provide media literacy to the children, youth and general society, and to promote good governance in Kenya through civic engagement and awareness initiatives.