Legal Action Worldwide
LAW is a women-led frontline legal organisation advancing the rule of law, access to justice, gender equality, and transformative justice in crisis and conflicts. Our aim is to ensure justice for victims and accountability of the perpetrators.
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US sanctions against the ICC: unprecedented assault on international justice
Press Release – 9 October 2026 Geneva – Legal Action Worldwide (LAW) unequivocally condemns the United States’ decision to impose…
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Argentina: Human rights organisations ask court to reject immunity for crimes against humanity
PRESS RELEASE – 8 October 2026 A coalition of seven human rights organisations has submitted an amicus curiae brief to…
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Survivors and gender justice practitioners meet as ICC unseals four arrest warrants for gender persecution
PRESS RELEASE – 9 October 2026 The Hague – One day before gender justice practitioners, survivors and advocates from across…
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Accountability, case by case.
Explore LAW key strategic litigations over the past decade in this short informative video.
What we do
Gender Equality & GBV
Gender inequality sits underneath most of the violations LAW works on representing survivors of sexual and gender based violence in individual cases, and challenging the laws, procedures and attitudes that made those cases possible.
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Justice for Child Victims
LAW works alongside child victims and survivors to pursue accountability, strengthen child centred justice systems, and ensure children's experiences, rights and voices are recognised in national and international responses to conflict and mass atrocities.
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Accountability & Rule of Law
LAW works to close that gap, whoever the perpetrator is: state actors, military actors, armed groups, private individuals or corporate entities. It brings cases in domestic, regional and international courts, supports national authorities to investigate and prosecute serious crimes, and builds internal and international pressure for independent investigations.
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Transformative Justice
LAW works to ensure that women, young people, minorities and survivor communities are meaningfully involved at every level rather than consulted at the end.
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Accountability for Aid Workers
LAW condemns the increase in deliberate and targeted attacks on aid workers in recent years and the very high rates of impunity for these attacks.
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