Natural Justice implements its work through three interconnected programmatic pillars.
Overview
Standing with Communities seeks to shift paradigms so that people have the tools to participate in and lead decision-making processes. We seek to do this by increasing the legal empowerment of communities and supporting women and youth-led organising and movement building across the continent. Together, this powers a strong collective struggle for equality, justice, and the protection of rights, as a foundation for addressing the planetary crisis.
Legal empowerment here means Indigenous Peoples and local communities having the legal knowledge and access to legal capacity to defend their rights, to defend women’s rights, to reduce environmental injustices, and to participate in decision-making from the local to global levels, in order to hold governments, companies, and multinational corporations accountable.
Programme Objective
Legally empowered Indigenous Peoples and local communities organize and use the law to ensure the implementation of their environmental and human rights, increase their agency, and hold governments, companies and multinational corporations accountable.
