Mission

AFLA creates opportunities through which legal institutions in Africa can germinate norms and practices that abhor rights violations. At the core of AFLA’s mandate, therefore, is a push towards a new and progressive legal awareness.

The term legal aid as used by AFLA does not denote traditional lawyering of providing legal aid to an indigent. Rather, AFLA adopts a holistic and inclusive approach to legal aid. Legal aid as used by AFLA is a strategic intervention at the continental level, marshalling key stakeholders to build a conscientious and committed group of human rights and justice advocates constantly engaged in pursuing rights and advancing accountability. As such the organisation’s efforts have been geared towards engaging as an advocate, convener and facilitator with our targeted beneficiaries: victims and survivors, civil societies, legal fraternities, opinion leaders, justice officials and diplomatic spheres.

An organisation with a global reach, AFLA has spearheaded efforts to incorporate and contribute much needed African perspectives in the global discourse on human rights and international justice. AFLAs expertise and know-how are often sought by non-African stakeholders and actors. The tools AFLA uses to accomplish its objectives include capacity building, advocacy, outreach, selected and targeted lawyering, development of policy and resource documents, publications, and media-government-victims roundtables.