The Global Strategic Litigation Council (‘the Council’) was founded in September 2021 to empower civil society to advance the rights of refugees and migrants through strategic litigation and legal advocacy. The Council helps advocates and organizations – including those with forced displacement backgrounds – share knowledge, collectively identify priorities, and execute litigation and legal advocacy strategies. In doing so, it aims to support the consistent and progressive development of international law relating to displacement worldwide.
Today, the rights of people on the move – including more than 37.6 million refugees – are under attack around the world. Since its launch, the Council has connected over 500 litigators, refugee leaders, advocates, organizations, and academics from every continent of the globe working to defend and expand those rights.
The Council provides direct support to its members, including on matters such as litigation strategy, coalition building, legal research, brief writing, sourcing expert reports, drafting/reviewing pleadings, and advocacy work. We also run capacity-building training, develop useful resources, and run events and regional networks to build community amongst our members.
The Council also regularly intervenes on international law matters in courts across the world. For example, the Council filed a legal intervention (amicus curiae) in the Constitutional Court of Colombia on a case relating to the mass cancellation of citizenship documents of approximately 42,000 Colombian-Venezuelans. The Council also co-filed an amicus brief in the Mexican Supreme Court with the International Detention Coalition regarding Alternatives to Detention (ATDs).
In 2023 and 2024, the Council is co-convening a series of regional consultations to create knowledge-sharing and collaboration spaces and identify new strategic legal work to support. Each regional consultation is co-convened with members of the Council – NGOs working directly with refugees and migrants around the world. Following each consultation, the Council has established a regional network for members to continue to share knowledge and collaborate on their strategic legal work. To date, these regional networks exist in Africa, Central America & Mexico, Europe and South America, the Caribbean, and South Asia.
In 2024, we intend to keep building upon our core support offer of providing litigation and advocacy support, running training and events across our thematic priorities, and building community amongst our members. We also want to focus our efforts on expanding the Council’s regional capacity and networks and furthering our work on our newest thematic priority, Climate Displacement. Follow our LinkedIn and Instagram pages for the latest updates from the Council.
You can find more information about the current work of the Council, upcoming priorities, and how you can get involved below:
Founding Documents
The Concept Note
LEGAL SUPPORT & ADVOCACY
The Council directly supports its members with litigation and/or legal advocacy. We regularly support on tasks such as litigation strategy, sourcing expert reports, brief writing, legal research, drafting/reviewing pleadings, coalition-building and more. To request the Council’s support on a case, please join the Council by filling out this form and fill out our Support Request form (En español disponible aquí)
If you are a lawyer or expert interested in providing support to other members of the Council, please do join the Council and get in touch with our team at secretariat@global-council.org.
Amicus Interventions:
The Council also regularly intervenes as amicus on international law matters in courts across the world. You can read some of the Council’s most recent amicus briefs here:
Expert Reports:
The Council also supports members by providing expert reports on international law issues in key pieces of strategic litigation on refugee and migrants’ rights. You can find our recent expert reports below:
You can read the Council’s most recent statements here:
EVENTS & Trainings
REGIONAL CONSULTATIONS
The Global Strategic Litigation Council is co-convening a series of regional consultations to create knowledge-sharing and collaboration spaces. The purpose of these in-person consultations is to bring together key litigators, advocates, refugee leaders, academics and organizations working to advance refugee and migrant rights through strategic litigation and legal advocacy in the region.
These events allow participants to build partnerships, strengthen their network, learn new strategies, and discuss and refine a vision for strategic litigation work in their region and beyond. To date, they have taken place in:
- East Africa – Nairobi, January 2023 (co-hosted with Kituo Cha Sheria)
- Central America – Mexico City, March 2023 (co-hosted with Asylum Access Mexico)
- South America – Bogota, March 2023 (co-hosted with Refugiados Unidos)
- Europe – Warsaw, September 2023 (co-hosted with the International Detention Coalition)
- Asia Pacific – Bangkok, August 2024 (co-hosted with Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network and the United Nations Office of Human Rights)
CAPACITY-BUILDING TRAININGS
The Council regularly runs capacity-building trainings for its members on the basis of their needs. You can request support by completing this form (disponible aquí en español). Please find some of our most recent trainings below:
Integrating Gender, Sexual Diversity and Intersectionality in the Protection of Refugees
In collaboration with Alejandro Gomez from Refugiados Unidos and Meredith McBride from Hong Kong Justice Centre, this workshop explores how integrating gender, sexual diversity, and intersectionality can transform the understanding of refugee protection. Historically, women and LGBTIQ+ asylum seekers have faced significant barriers, but recent legal and policy developments have highlighted the feminization of migration and the impact of gender-based violence as key drivers of forced displacement. Alejandro and Meredith examine evolving legal frameworks and advocacy strategies to strengthen protections for these communities, offering insights into how these advances can drive systemic change.
Utilizing UN Treaty Bodies for Human Rights Litigation
In collaboration with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, this training explores how to use the UN human rights treaty bodies’ individual complaints procedures to protect the rights of people on the move, particularly in the context of return and provide an overview of the procedure, showcase relevant jurisprudence, and discuss strategic litigation opportunities to advance the protection of migrants’ rights.
English
Español
International Protection, Disasters and Climate Change Training
In collaboration with the Refugee Law Initiative and led by Professor David Cantor at the University of London Refugee Law Initiative together with Dr. Beatriz Sanchez, this training covers key conceptual and legal aspects of how international protection rules expressed by refugee and human rights law apply to claims relating to disaster contexts and climate change in the applicant’s country of origin.
English
Español
Climiglaw Database Beta Launch – with the Global Strategic Litigation Council, Earth Refuge and RWI
The Council has launched the beta version of the Climate Displacement Database, a free-to-access global database collating and summarizing judicial decisions concerning all forms of internal and cross border climate-related mobility. It is co-developed by the Global Strategic Litigation Council, Earth Refuge, the Raoul Wallenberg Institute and the Zolberg Institute for Migration & Mobility.
English
Climate Displacement Database Soft-launch Slides (ENG)
Español
Using the Inter-American Human Rights System
Co-sponsored by the NYU Center for Justice and International Law and Center for Human Rights and Global Justice and the Hemispheric Network for Haitian Migrants’ Rights, this training is facilitated by Silvia Serna Román and Gabriela Oviedo Perhavec. The training covers filing petitions, managing cases, and understanding provisional and precautionary measures, as well as advisory opinions in the Inter-American System of Human Rights.
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Kreyol
In-depth Analysis of Inter-American Court of Human Rights Law
This training facilitated by Gabriela Oviedo and Silvia Serna at the Council provides an in-depth discussion of the INter-American Court of Human Rights’ case law. It covers important rulings related to mobility and asylum; an exploration of the Court’s stance on key legal principles; and the Court’s impact on migrants and refugees.
English
Español
Proceedings Before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
Co-sponsored by the Central & Latin America regional networks of the Council, this training by Helen Kerwin and Gabriela Oviedo at CEJIL, provides an overview of bringing proceedings before the Inter-American System.
English
Español
Good Practices & Strategic Opportunities: Using African Human Rights Mechanisms
Co-sponsored by the Africa regional network of the Council, this training by Michael Nyarko at the Litigation & Implementation Unit, Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria provides an overview of the nature of submissions that can be made to international and regional human rights mechanisms, with particular focus on African human rights bodies.
View the training slides here.
The Externalization of Asylum
Co-sponsored by the Council’s Working Group on Legal Status & Lawful Stay, this training by David Cantor at the Refugee Law Initiative provides an overview on the externalization of asylum and how to challenge externalization policies.
Communications Training: Messaging and Media Engagement
Washington, D.C.-based strategic communications firm West End Strategy Team’s partner Samantha Kupferman and former partner Meredith MacKenzie de Silva facilitated a training providing advice and tips on messaging and media engagement as part of legal work to advance refugee and migrant rights.
CO-SPONSORED EVENTS
A Climate Dimension: Practical Steps for International Protection Claims
This panel discussion raises awareness about the practical steps being taken to protect those seeking international protection with a climate dimension to their claim. It also provides information about the individual and collective efforts civil society can join to advance the rights of those displaced by climate change. Our Regional Litigator for Africa, Maureen Okoth, was one of the panelists. We co-hosted the event with Refugee Legal Support, Earth Refuge, the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI), the International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP), and the Greek Refugee Council.
Decolonizing Refugee Law (Co-Hosted by the Refugee Solidarity Network):
The Courts, Climate Change, Migrant and Refugee Rights – (Co-Hosted by the American Society of International Law): View Here.
9th Annual UNHCR Strategic Litigation Roundtable: Recap.
THEMATIC PRIORITIES
To set priorities and identify issue-based areas of work, the GSLC convenes Working Groups (WGs). Currently, the GSLC’s three WGs focus on Legal Status & Lawful Stay, Detention & Due Process and Climate Displacement.
In 2022, strategy sub-committees drawn from the membership of the Legal Status & Lawful Stay WG and Detention & Due Process WG identified a set of affirmative litigation priorities for the Council’s support and collaboration. These priorities can be found below:
Legal Status & Lawful Stay
- Access to long-term residency status/rights and citizenship
- Discrimination among and between groups of refugees and refugees and other migrants
- Non-refoulement (including extraterritorial application of the norm and broadening its scope via human rights law)
- Rights related to integration (including privacy and family life/unity)
Detention & Due Process
- Detention of children (including family detention)
- Conditions of detention (including medical care)
- Access to legal counsel
- Alternatives to detention (and accompanying conditions and restrictions)
Climate Displacement
We are currently in the process of working with members and experts across the world to co-create priorities and regional strategies in relation to Climate Displacement work. With support of partners, we are also developing a comprehensive Climiglaw Case Database. This will serve as a tool for informed decision making, effective strategy development and more precise advocacy in this vital area of law and policy. The beta version of the database is currently available here.
Council Members have access to a private hub, which contains information about the working groups, Steering Committee meetings, and other pertinent information. This hub is password protected to ensure only Council Members have access.
Newsletters
The GSLC will send quarterly newsletters to all who are interested in receiving updates.
Interested in joining the GSLC? Complete the below form.
Steering Committee
Our Secretariat team is based across the world and collectively responsible for the running of the Council and its regional networks. In 2024 we have appointed three new regional litigators to lead our Africa, Central America & Mexico and South Asia South Asia regional networks. We intend to grow this team to ensure we have regional litigators supporting the Council’s networks in every region of the world. Check out our organisational chart for more details on each member of our team. If you want to get in touch with any of us, please do reach out to secretariat@global-council.org.
Members of the GSLC
* denotes founding member
~ denotes member of the Steering Committee
+ denotes current Working Group co-chair
~ denotes member of the Secretariat
Organizational Members
- ABA ROLI
- ACLU National Prison Project
- ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project
- African Center of Excellence for Access to Justice
- AFSC
- Alma Migrante, A. C.
- Al Otro Lado
- ALEF – Act for Human Rights
- AMERA International
- Amnesty International
- Aso. REdmujeresNicaraguensesen Costa Rica
- Asociación Pro Derechos Humanos de España (APDHE)
- Asociación Rumiñahui
- Association des Femmes Juristes du Burundi
- Association for Legal Intervention (SIP)
- AsyLex
- Asylum Access
- Asylum Access Thailand (AAT)
- Asylum Aid
- Bangladesh Institute of Human Rights
- Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust*
- Berkeley Law, Center on Comparative Equality & Anti-Discrimination Law, Immigrant Justice & Climate Refugees
- Cardozo School of Law Immigration Justice Clinic
- Caribbean Centre for Human Rights
- Casa Monarca
- Center for Constitutional Rights
- Center for Gender & Refugee Studies
- Center for the Human Rights of Children, Loyola University Chicago School of Law
- Center for International Human Rights, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
- Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL)
- Center for Legal Aid Voice in Bulgaria
- Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria
- Centro de Derechos Humanos, Universidad Católica Andrés Bello
- Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales*
- Centro de Justicia Interamericana en Derechos Humanos
- Centro Latinoamericano de Estudios Ambientales
- Clinica del Diritto dell’Immigrazione e della Cittadinanza – Università degli studi Roma Tre
- Clínica Jurídica de Refugiados “Alaíde Foppa,” Universidad Iberoamericana
- Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative
- Consejo Noruego para Refugiados (NRC)
- Coop-Cameroon
- Cornell Law School Migration & Human Rights Program*~^
- Cristosal*
- Cubalex
- Danish Refugee Council
- Defense des Enfants International
- Dejusticia*
- Detention Action
- DIGNITY Kwanza
- DLA Piper
- Dongcheon Foundation
- DRC Danish Refugee Council
- Duroo Public Interest Lawyers*
- Earth Refuge
- East African Centre for Forced Migration and Displacement
- Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Asia
- Environmental Defender Law Center
- Equilibrium CenDE
- FIDA Uganda
- FONAMIH
- Fountain of Justice South Africa
- Forcibly Discplaced People Network
- Fortify Rights
- Front-LEX*
- Fundacion etnica integral
- Fundación Munasim Kullakita
- Fundación Puentes para el Desarrollo de Centroamérica
- Fundación Refugiados Unidos
- Georgetown Law
- Global Legal Action Network*
- Global Refugee Led Network
- Global Rights Advocacy
- GMIES
- Greater Love Sustainable Initiative
- Grupo de Monitoreo Independiente de El Salvador
- Grupo de Acciones Públicas Icesi (GAPI)
- Haitian Bridge Alliance
- Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program
- Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights
- Hexayurt Project
- HIAS*+~
- Hong Kong Dignity Institute
- Human Constanta International
- Human Rights Law Centre
- Human Rights Legal Project
- Human Rights Research League
- Hungarian Helsinki Committee
- Instituto de Abogados para la Protección del Medio Ambiente, INSAPROMA
- Instituto para el desarrollo sostenible de la mujer lenca de Honduras IDESMULH
- Instituto para las Mujeres en la Migración*
- International Commission of Jurists
- International Detention Coalition*+
- International Institute for Human Rights, Environment and Development
- International Refugee Assistance Project*
- IRAP
- J.K. Bosek & Company Advocates
- Justice Center Hong Kong*
- Justice Makers Bangladesh in France (JMBF)
- Justice Project Pakistan
- Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law
- Katiba Institute
- Kids in Need of Defense (KIND)
- Kituo Cha Sheria*+~
- Kumpay ONG
- Las hijas de Pandora
- Lebanese Center for Human Rights*+
- Legal Action Worldwide
- Legal Clinic for Migrants at University of the Andes
- Legal Services NYC
- Liga haitiana internacional – lihaiti
- MAP Foundation
- Menstruacion Digna en Escenarios de Movilidad
- Migrant Center for Human Rights
- Migrants & Refugee Committee, Bar Council of Malaysia
- Migrasia Global Solutions
- Migration & Asylum Project*+~
- Move coalition
- NANSEN – The Belgian Refugee Council
- NAV Consultores
- Neighbors Link
- New Women Connectors
- NoPhotoZone Organization
- Open Society Initiative for West Africa*
- Open Society Justice Initiative*
- Out & Proud Disability Support Association
- Panamerican and Caribbean Union for Human Rights
- PICUM – Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants
- Pilgrim Center for Reconciliation Uganda
- PILNet
- Profesional Venezolanos en Argentina PROVEAR
- Progetto Diritti Onlus
- Project Demokratie Cafe Reutlingen
- Refugee Consortium of Kenya*
- Refugee Council of Australia*
- Refugee Innovation Centre
- Refugee Legal Network
- Refugee Legal Support
- Refugee Rights Litigation Project*
- Refugee Solidarity Network
- Refugiados Unidos*~
- Refugee Welfare Association Cameroon (REWAC)
- Research Centre for Climate Law (ClimLaw), University of Graz
- Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights
- Save My Identity
- Scalabrini Centre of Cape Town
- Selendy and Gay
- Servicio Jesuita para Migrantes Costa Rica
- Shaheed Benazir Bhutto women university
- Sin Fronteras IAP
- Sonoiya and co advocates
- South African Bar Association
- South Africa Refugee Led Network
- St. Andrew’s Refugee Services
- Study and Research Centre on Environmentally Displaced Persons (NEPDA), Paraiba State University
- SUAKA
- The Asia Foundation
- The International Institute on Race, Equality and Human Rights
- The Law Office of Elias Shebar
- The National Justice Project
- The Rule of Law institute
- The Strategic Legal Fund
- The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy — Legal Unit
- Togolaw & Co., advocates
- UNHCR
- Universidad Alberto Hurtado
- University Network for Human Rights
- University of Cape Town, Refugee Rights Unit
- University of San Francisco Immigration & Deportation Defense Clinic
- USC Law International Human Rights Clinic
- Wayne State Asylum & Immigration Law Clinic
- Youth Association for Development (YAD) Pakistan
- Zambian Civil Liberties Union (ZCLU)
- Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility*~^
Individual Members
- Abiy Ashenafi
- Abu Sayed Mostafa Siraj
- Adaeze Anah
- Adeodata Kanyamihanda
- Afreen Begum
- Alex Tarzikhan
- Alexandra Sideri
- Alfredo Sánchez
- Ali Al-Karim
- Amanda Camargo
- Amanda Weston K.C.
- Amber Chandio
- Amelia McGowan
- Ana Karolina Medeiros Fernandes
- Ana Maria Raietparvar
- Ana Sofía Flores Gómez
- Ana Pilar Amador Borrero
- Andrea Pacheco Pacifico
- Andrew Boyle
- Anna Lodeserto
- Anna Shea
- Anthony Mulekyo
- Antonina Cherevko
- Anurag Devkota
- Aparajita Rana
- Aparimita Pratap
- Aphrodite Papachristodoulou
- Arlene Amarante
- Arnold Ochieng Oginga
- Ashwin Nair
- Ataul Mustafa
- Atta ul Haq
- Atul Alexander
- Barun Ghimire
- Bastien Charaudeau Santomauro
- Beatriz Felipe Perez
- Brayan Alexis Garcia Galeano
- Bronwen Manby
- Burhan Uddin Barbhuiya
- Camelia Metwally
- Camila Robalino
- Camilla Cockerill
- Carlos Armando Coria Garcia
- Carlos Palomino Paredes
- Carmen E. Atkins
- Carole Simone Dahan
- Carolene Kituku
- Caterina Franchi
- Cathy Sakumalefo Hite
- Cavidan Soykan
- Chelsea Bell
- Cheryl Dsouza
- Chomwa Mbewe
- Christel Querton
- Christopher Boom
- Cindy Galway Buys
- Claire Raissian
- Coline Schupfer
- Conrad Kimbugwe
- Constanza Castillo Muñoz
- Constanza Jáuregui
- Cristina Garcia
- Christina Khouri
- Christine Savino
- Dana Schmalz
- Danai Angeli
- Daniyal Khan
- Daniel Naujoks
- Daniel Toda Castán
- Daniel Van Lehman
- Daria Sartori
- David Ngira
- David Omondi
- David Thronson
- Denise Bell
- Denise Gilman
- Derya Ozkul
- Diana Romina Puerto Michaut
- Dilwar Hussain Barlaskar
- Dorothy Omboto
- Dr. Kepha Natolooka
- Edmund Bon
- Eileen Ma
- Eliana Martínez
- Emellin De Oliveira
- Emily Rowe
- Eric Kuria
- Esperance Timothy Ogola
- Esteban Hernández
- Esther Montesinos Calvo-Fernández
- Evin Ekaete Umanah
- Fabian Oriri
- Fabi Fugazza
- Fatima Khan*
- Fazal Abdali
- Felisah Kilembe Mitambo
- Fikire Birhane
- Fiona McKinnon
- Francesca Romana Partipilo
- Gaudence Akinyi Were
- Giulia Raimondo
- Gloria Wangui Kimani
- Grazyna Baranowska
- Grecia Guzman
- Grecia Pillaca Burga
- Hailu Ambaye
- Helen Leung
- Helen Kerwin
- Helen Zein Eddine
- Hillary Kipnis
- Ibrahim Khalif
- Irene Shiundu
- Isaac Mwanza
- Isaac Taylor
- Itamar Mann*
- Ivonne Garza
- Jackson Chin
- Jacob van Garderen
- James Chapman
- Janine Prantl
- Javier Contreras Arreaga
- Javier Ignacio Moreno Gómez
- Janet Manguti
- Jennifer Moore
- Jill Alpes
- Jinan Bastaki
- Jittawadee Chotinukul
- Joan Zhu
- Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum
- Jonathan Klaaren
- Jose Arlindo Muiange
- Jose-Booz Paul
- Josephine Fathers
- Jose Serrano Salgado
- Jose Sieber
- Joy Reyes
- Juan Manuel Zarama
- Julie Kemunto Matoke
- Julie Kornfeld
- Justin Antonides
- Justine Stefanelli
- Kamran Sheikhi
- Kate Ogg
- Katie Lowe
- Keri Pflieger
- Kif Augustine
- Kirsteen Lau*
- Klotildi Prountzou
- KMS Tareq
- Kosuke Oie
- Kyunghee Kang
- Leah Kanyangi
- Leila Asadi
- Linet Opiyo
- Lou-Salomé Sorlin
- Lupe Alberto Flores
- Mafruza Sultana
- Magdalena Nazimek-Rakoczy
- Margaret Boyce-Furey
- Margaux Bia
- Maria Giovanna Mariani
- Maria Jose Peña Ospina
- Maria Osullivan
- Mariam Jamal
- Marian Sandoval
- Mariana Olaizola Rosenblat
- Marie Demetriou K.C.
- Marilyn Dayana Oviedo Villarreal
- Martha Balaguera
- Mary Hansel
- Mary Nalwoga
- Mathari Manyisa
- Matthew Boaz
- Max B.
- Mbonisi Malinga Ndhlovu
- Megan Hauptman
- Mekonnen Ayano
- Melissa Chandler Bermudez
- Melissa Stewart
- Michael Nyarko
- Miriam Achaloi
- Miriam Syrjänen
- Mirjam Twigt
- Mohamed Farahat
- Mojan Farshchi
- Moshood Olanrewaju
- Muhammad Samir Khan
- Muhammad Saad
- Munsifah Choudhary
- Muriel Volz
- Nabeelah Mia
- Nancy Kupfer
- Naomi Hart
- Nery Santaella
- Ngoe Thomas Itoe
- Niaone Moumini
- Nik Tan
- Nora Markard
- Nuria Ferre Trad
- Pablo Sajcabún
- Palesa Maloisane
- Paloma Griffin
- Paola Guerrero
- Paras Zafar Samo
- Patience Kiara
- Pat Nawi
- Paul Clark
- Paulina Macias Ortega
- Peace Adebola Okeshola
- Peace Ikiring
- Pedro Tiago Goncalves Martinho
- Penelope Mathew
- Peter Habib
- Philip Collins
- Philippe De Bruycker
- Poulomi Nag
- Prakhya CV
- Priyanka Prasanth
- Rakesh Singh Meihoubam
- Raissa Mattana
- Rana Refahi
- Randel Johnson
- Ranit Mishori
- Rashmi Bothra
- Raza Husain
- Rebeca Williams
- Rebecca Mahabir
- Regine Lotlikar
- Renato Sebastiani Leon Mazza
- Reni Biswas Axelrod
- Richard Kalu
- Richard Towle
- Ricardo Diaz Sanabria
- Roksanna Keyvan
- Rosalynn L Hmar Babie
- Rosanna Eugenio
- Sabrina Kenis
- Samar Abbas
- Samundra Acharay
- SangYeob Kim
- Sanjula Weerasinghe
- Sarah Dobbie
- Sarah O’Keeffe
- Sarah Paoletti
- Sarah Singer
- Sara Moreno
- Selen Vargün Alıtkan
- Senu Nizar
- Shaishir Divatia
- Shashira Douglas
- Shana Tabak*
- Sharon Giardina
- Sheila Nambooze
- Sheldon Novick
- Shikha Garg
- Shreya Gautam
- Shterna Isseroff
- Shu Min Kee
- Siân McGibbon
- Silvia Talavera
- Simona Capisani
- Sirawon Rimai
- Sishir Dey
- Srija Basu
- Stacy Caplow
- Sugey Carrasco Mendoza
- Sumayyah Jarso Mokku
- Tania Agosti
- Taniya Lasker
- Tanya Kullar
- Tapan Kumar Paul
- Thandeka Chauke
- Tien Wei Yang Chen
- Toyosi Odusola
- Trevor Rice
- Umer Gilani
- Vaibhav Tiwari
- Veronica Serrano Tama
- Vicente Rodriguez
- Victor Del Vecchio
- Victoria Miranda Portillo
- Vinayak Chawla
- Waritsara Rungthong
- Vivek Bhagat
- Whyrlin Rhygual Zamora Gil
- Ximena Suarez
- Yash S Vijay
- Yenny Guzman Moyano
- Yonas Nebiyeloul-Kifle
- Yukari Ando
- Yumna Kamel
- Yuriria Salvador Hernández
- Zohal Khan
Blogposts
Member Spotlights: Lublanc prieto
Member Spotlights: Silvia Román
In the first episode of our Member Spotlight series, Lublanc Prieto of Refugiados Unidos shares her inspiring story, the challenges faced by refugees, and the hope to build a united world.
In the next episode of our Member Spotlight series, our Latin America Regional Litigator, Silvia Serna Román highlights her work with the Council, her inspirations to advocate for displaced people, and the future of human rights protection.
What next for people displaced by the growing climate crisis?
The Cartagena Declaration in the face of the current crisis
Why should states consider alternatives to detention?
climate change and forced migration: how should states respond?
In the face of the growing climate crisis and the Council’s involvement in a landmark case concerning climate displacement, this blog considers what is required, from States and from civil society, to ensure the protection of all those displaced by climate disasters.
The Council remembers and celebrates the 40 years since the 1984 Cartagena Declaration originally established to address the Latin American refugee crises and continues to remain vital today, urging effective protections for displaced persons amidst ongoing challenges.
The Council makes important legal intervention in a case against the Mexican government demanding the release of all people held in detention centers during the pandemic.
The Global Strategic Litigation Council and a Coalition of Caribbean Civil Society Organisations* intervened in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights’ Climate Change Advisory Opinion Proceedings.