Our International Engagement

We conduct targeted legal advocacy at the major international institutions, impacting law and policy worldwide.

Our international offices are strategically located to operationalize our global mission, including by maintaining a full-time presence at all the major international institutions.

VIENNA

Located strategically where Western and Eastern Europe meet, our headquarters provides an ideal base to coordinate our advocacy efforts around the world. From here, we direct our cases filed at the European Court of Human Rights, and engage locally with the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe and the Fundamental Rights Agency of the European Union.

BRUSSELS

Situated in the capital of the European Union, we provide expert advice to the European Parliament, European Commission, and Council of Ministers, advocating for human rights initiatives to impact all of Europe, and highlighting our international cases and advocacy to obtain support from these bodies.

GENEVA

From the doorstep of the United Nation’s human rights hub, we focus our legal advocacy efforts at the Human Rights Council, the Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights, and the various bodies that monitor human rights treaties, providing legal resources to Member State representatives from all parts of the world in support of human rights protections.

LONDON

We engage with law, policy, and media in the heart of the United Kingdom’s capital, with corollary effect across the entire English-speaking world. We develop and maintain relationships with allied partners to affect the decisions coming out of the UK parliament, courts, and communications channels.

WASHINGTON DC

The office in Washington, DC, is positioned to effectively engage with the government and civil society groups in the United States on global religious freedom concerns, including as key partners of the International Religious Freedom or Belief Alliance and at the Organization of American States, which unites Member States from Latin America, the Caribbean, the US, and Canada.

NEW YORK

Our officially accredited status to the United Nations enables us to maintain a full-time presence at the world’s foremost international body, providing legal expertise to Member States to ensure protections for the inherent dignity of every human person. Our specific areas of focus are the General Assembly, the Economic and Social Council, and a variety of high-level commissions and other influential UN entities.

VIENNA

BRUSSELS

GENEVA

LONDON

STRASBOURG

Our presence in Strasbourg puts us at the forefront of European decision-making. The city is home to the Council of Europe, which includes the European Court of Human Rights, and is the official seat of the European Parliament.

WASHINGTON DC

NEW YORK

Our National Engagement

We champion the rights of our clients in courtrooms around the world and defend fundamental freedoms at national law-making bodies, securing precedent-setting victories that benefit everyone.

Defend our clients in court, together with a network of thousands of allied lawyers

Advocate for national laws and policies that protect the fundamental rights of every person

Hold States to account for the international human rights obligations they have committed to uphold

Global Alliance

We equip and mobilize the leaders of today and tomorrow to work as an effective global alliance, creating lasting change for future generations.

We Raise Up Leaders

We unite a worldwide network of lawyers and key allies in government, media, academia, civil society and more through engaging training programmes like Areté Academy and the Blackstone Legal Fellowship.

We Equip and Mobilize Allies

We equip individuals active in their spheres of influence with essential legal resources to take on key cases and advocacy, exponentially increasing our global efforts in defence of fundamental freedoms.

We Build a Global Network

We equip and mobilize a global alliance of lawyers, communicators, policymakers, academics, and civil society leaders in every region of the world to effectively protect fundamental freedoms for everyone.

We support our allies through grants and funding and advocacy resources. Learn more here.