Established in Brussels in 1992, Avocats Sans Frontières (ASF) is an international NGO specialising in defending human rights and access to justice. From Kinshasa to Tunis, from Jakarta to Bujumbura, our teams inform people about their rights, help civil society and lawyers to provide them with better assistance, and promote legislative reforms designed to increase respect for human rights. OUR MISSION is to assist people, particularly those in a vulnerable situation, to become emancipated by demanding and asserting their rights. OUR VISION is for us, justice is essential for preventing and managing conflicts as well as for promoting human rights. We intervene in situations where the full and effective realisation of rights and individual and public freedoms is seriously endangered. These situations are mainly characterised by
1. structural dysfunctions of the justice institutions
2. a lack of independence of these institutions
3. the manipulation of the law by political, military or economic groups, at the expense of the general interest. shortcomings in terms of willingness and/or capacity of the State to ensure the provision of basic public services, including the public service of justice
4. economic development prospects severely compromised
5. significant social tensions.
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