Natural Justice implements its work through three interconnected programmatic pillars.
Overview
Defending Rights seeks to stop and/ or challenge projects that harm the environment and violate the rights of Indigenous Peoples and local communities. We deploy strategic, public interest, or urgent legal actions to halt fossil fuel projects, land grabs, and non-compliant extractive and infrastructure projects. We also undertake other legal interventions such as using independent redress mechanisms and being involved in public participation processes. Strategic environmental and climate litigation is one avenue to challenge corporations and governments. While this is time and resource intensive, each victory creates a ripple effect from the affected communities, across Africa and into the boardrooms of multinational companies.
The Quick Response Litigation Fund (QRLF) provides small grants to support urgent litigation by Indigenous or organised community groups across the continent who are fighting to protect and affirm their land, environmental, natural resource, and Indigenous knowledge rights or to promote climate and environmental justice for their communities.
Programme Objective
Indigenous Peoples and local communities challenge and stop fossil fuel and extractive projects, land grabs, and other exploitative projects to protect their environmental and human rights and advance environmental and climate justice.
