Africa Legal Aid (AFLA)

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 and the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR), and the recently established War Crimes Division of the High Court of Uganda (WCD). AFLA has offices in Accra (Headquarters), The Hague and Pretoria.

Translating paper written rights into practical reality is the inspiration behind AFLA's Motto:

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”.