Human Rights

Advocating for legal frameworks that protect rights, supporting rights defenders, and linking survivors with justice systems

CGP understands that the true test of a legal system is its ability to secure and protect rights and liberties for its constituents. To achieve these aims, governments and civil society need to foster civic education on rights and liberties, support institutions and processes that nurture and enforce them, and build the capacity of legal professionals and individuals to secure respect for these rights and liberties. CGP encounters discrimination in a wide range of jurisdictions. Gender, race, language, culture, sexual orientation, and other defining human characteristics are all too frequently used to curtail equal rights and protections within a legal system. CGP works to advance human rights by advocating for appropriate legal frameworks that protect rights, supporting human rights defenders who are often targeted because of their work, and collaborating with national and local human rights mechanisms and institutions to connect survivors with acceptable justice mechanisms.