Africa Legal Aid (AFLA)

Prof. S.B.O. Gutto, Justice Date Bah, Supreme Court of Ghana, and Justice Modibo Ocran (deceased) Supreme Court of Ghana, at the conference "Introducing the new African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights", in cooperation with the Ministry of Justice of Gh

Africa Legal Aid (AFLA) is a Pan African NGO devoted to promoting and protecting individual and collective rights throughout Africa and to challenging the impunity of gross human rights violators. AFLA provides leadership and support to key institutions and organizations working for respect and recognition of human rights and International Justice.

AFLA has close working relations with the International Criminal Court (ICC), the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACmHPR), the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACtHPR), and the recently established War Crimes Division of the High Court of Uganda (WCD). AFLA has offices in Accra and The Hague and a registered office in Pretoria.

AFLA was launched on 21 October, 1995 to coincide with Africa Day of Human Rights. AFLA addresses under-developed areas of human rights as well as emerging human rights issues of crucial relevance to Africa. In a strategic review of AFLA, the independent external facilitator observed that “AFLA has become a leading voice in the progressive development of human rights jurisprudence for Africa”.