Challenging injustice 

through international 

legal strategies

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We work with affected communities to pursue innovative legal actions across borders to challenge powerful actors involved in human rights violations and systemic injustice.

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Portuguese young people file ground-breaking climate case against 33 countries with European Court of Human Rights

03/09/20 Four children & two young adults from Portugal have filed an unprecedented climate change case with the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. They are asking the Court to hold 33 countries accountable for fuelling the climate crisis. The case, which is brought with the support of the GLAN, centres on the rising threat which climate change poses to their lives and to their physical and mental wellbeing.

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Irish Medical Council must no longer ignore human rights concerns in accreditation of education programme in Bahrain

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