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Demanding Compensation: Convincing the government to compensate victims of abuse by police, military, and armed forces personnel

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) in India investigates complaints of human rights abuses and responds to verified complaints by requesting that the government provide financial compensation to victims and issue appropriate penalties to perpetrators.

Holding an international tribunal to raise awareness of and seek reparations for sexual war crimes

A network in Asia organized an international tribunal to preserve the memory of abuses that occurred decades before, and to demand compensation.

Using people’s tribunals to mobilize victims and pressure for justice

The Human Rights Law Network (HRLN), founded by a group of lawyers and social activists in India, set up the Indian People’s Tribunal to promote justice and mobilize victims of human rights abuses.  These tribunals seek to bring a wide range of human rights abuses into focus through conducting public hearings.  Positioned as an alternative People’s Court, since 1993 the IPT has conduc

Litigating representative cases to push for women’s rights through legal reform

The Center for Women’s Law Studies and Legal Services of Peking University was founded 1995 as a pubic interest law firm that conducts research on women’s issues and provides pro-bono legal services to Chinese women of all backgrounds.  The center’s most successful tactic has been in litigating a select number cases that carry great implications for Chinese women’s struggles in the current

Sharing stories of political prisoners and their relatives to pressure for their release

The Center for Human Rights & Development (CHRD) is a Sri Lankan NGO founded by a group of human rights lawyers and activists. It has facilitated the release of approximately 400 political prisoners by widely sharing stories of political prisoners and their relatives.

Providing free legal services to victims of police torture

A collective of attorneys in the Izmir Bar Association (IBA) in Turkey organized its members to provide free services to victims of police torture.

Filing a civil tort action against a multi-national organization for human rights abuses that occurred as a result of a business

A group of Burmese laborers who were forced to work on a pipeline project in Myanmar successfully filed suit against two co-venturers in the pipeline project, Unocal and Total.  They claim that the two transnational corporations knew and profited from the fact that the military of Myanmar was using violence and intimidation to relocate villages, enslave farmers, commit rape and other tortu

Opening police files to victims of abuse to promote justice and healing

The Centro de Documentación y Archivo (CDyA) opens police files to the public to contribute to justice and healing in Paraguay.  The discovery of an immense cache of files in a small Paraguayan police station by a former political prisoner in December 1992 led to the creation of the CDyA.  This archive is commonly known as the “Archive of Terror” because of the nature of the files it