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.

The thematic areas we tackle, taking into account shifting areas of threat and new opportunities for jurisprudential development, are:

-       economic and social rights
-       equality
-       security and the rule of law

We work regionally in Africa, Europe, the Commonwealth, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and South Asia.  The organisation has a number of lawyers who work thematically as well as lawyers who are from and have years of experience litigating in the regions in which we work.  These thematic and regional lawyers work together on cases, bringing their particular knowledge, contacts and experiences to bear. We are thus able to bring an international and comparative law perspective to our work - whether in the form of submissions before an international tribunal, or individual advice to local lawyers.