Africa Legal Aid

Founded in 1995, Africa Legal Aid is a non-governmental organisation based in The Hague, Netherlands working on human rights, justice & legal aid, gender equality.

Africa Legal Aid (AFLA) is a pan-African human rights and justice organisation founded in 1995 and headquartered in The Hague. It works to promote accountability, end impunity for gross human rights violations and advance international criminal justice from an African perspective. Its work includes convening conferences and side events at the International Criminal Court, supporting the Cairo-Arusha Principles on Universal Jurisdiction, running a gender mentoring programme for international judges, mobilising African States Parties on the crime of aggression, and publishing the AFLA Quarterly and other books and reports. It takes a victim-centred and gender-sensitive approach and works with civil society, legal professionals and national, regional and international institutions across Africa.