What We Do
Advocacy Forum (AF) takes a proactive, empirical and sustainable approach to dealing with human rights violations. We devise innovative strategies and take to interdisciplinary approaches to handle our activities, which are zeroed in on combating the vicious cycle of impunity afflicting the people.
AF's adopts the following Strategic Approaches:
Documentation and Monitoring of Human Rights
Visits to detention center, fact-finding trips, documenting cases of human rights violations; monitoring the functioning police and administrative bodies, and critical review of laws and policies that contradict with international laws.
Emblematic cases
Taking up emblematic cases help to bring concerted, coordinated and sustained pressures in these cases both nationally and internationally.
Focused Policy Advocacy
Research-based advocacy aiming at reform of policies and laws to comply with international standards and practices; enhancing access to justice for the poor and marginalized, including transitional justice for conflict victims; fighting the culture of impunity; reform of the criminal justice system; and promotion of a fair juvenile justice system in line with international standards.
Capacity Building of Local Organizations
Capacity building measures (skills training, workshops, exchanges and so on) to enhance the organizational and leadership capacity of the relevant stakeholders
Legal Aid
Legal aid involves legal advice and counseling, legal representation, bringing cases on behalf of victims of human rights violations both at national level and internationally
So extensive is the breadth of our activities that not a single incident of import regarding the issue of human rights escapes unattended by us. Currently, we have five well-resourced thematic departments inherently guided by our mission, vision and objectives. These departments, however, aren't separate entities in themselves but work in close coordination and complement each other in total symbiosis:
- Criminal Justice Department
- Transitional Justice Department
- Prevention of Torture Department
- HR Documentation and Monitoring Department
- Child Rights Monitoring and Juvenile Justice Department
Besides, the Research, Advocacy and Lobbying forms an integral part of AF's work.
