Welcome_
INTERIGHTS, the International Centre for the Legal Protection of Human Rights works to promote respect for human rights through the use of law. We do so by providing legal expertise to lawyers, judges, human rights defenders and other partners concerning international and comparative human rights law.
The main focus of our work is strategic litigation – bringing or supporting cases in critical areas where there is either a potential for human rights standards to be developed or where existing standards are under threat.
INTERIGHTS complements its litigation work through legal capacity building and standard setting activities and by publishing and disseminating legal information.
Through all of these activities, we seek both to promote the enforcement of human rights standards at the international, regional and domestic levels and to empower legal partners around the world to do the same.
Announcements_
The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights should require Djibouti to answer for abuses it committed as part of the CIA’s secret detention and rendition programme, said the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (CHRGJ) at NYU School of Law and INTERIGHTS in a legal filing on 28 February 2011.
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INTERIGHTS, the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights and Human Rights Watch submitted a request to the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights on 24 February 2011 regarding the ongoing serious human rights violations taking place in Libya.
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