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Legal Action Worldwide

LAW is a women-led frontline legal organisation advancing the rule of law, access to justice, gender equality, and transformative justice in crisis and conflicts. Our aim is to ensure justice for victims and accountability of the perpetrators.

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A Decade of Justice

Accountability, case by case.

Explore LAW key strategic litigations over the past decade in this short informative video.

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What we do

gender-equality & GBV
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Gender Equality & GBV

Gender inequality sits underneath most of the violations LAW works on representing survivors of sexual and gender based violence in individual cases, and challenging the laws, procedures and attitudes that made those cases possible.

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Justice for children victims
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Justice for Child Victims

LAW works alongside child victims and survivors to pursue accountability, strengthen child centred justice systems, and ensure children's experiences, rights and voices are recognised in national and international responses to conflict and mass atrocities.

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Accountability & Rule of Law
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Accountability & Rule of Law

LAW works to close that gap, whoever the perpetrator is: state actors, military actors, armed groups, private individuals or corporate entities. It brings cases in domestic, regional and international courts, supports national authorities to investigate and prosecute serious crimes, and builds internal and international pressure for independent investigations.

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Transformative justice
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Transformative Justice

LAW works to ensure that women, young people, minorities and survivor communities are meaningfully involved at every level rather than consulted at the end.

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Attacks against aid workers
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Accountability for Aid Workers

LAW condemns the increase in deliberate and targeted attacks on aid workers in recent years and the very high rates of impunity for these attacks.

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"If victims and survivors have the courage to speak, the rest of us must have the courage to act."

Antonia Mulvey  ·  Legal Action Worldwide
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