Human Rights & Gender Equality

Our aim is to work to promote human rights and gender equality and support mechanisms that respond to and address human rights abuses and violations.

Under this intervention area, our work focuses on promoting human rights and gender equality, ensuring that mechanisms are in place to respond to human rights abuses and violations and that accountability mechanisms are strengthened such that perpetrators of human rights violations are held accountable.

We also work to ensure that the voices of groups excluded from national and local democratic processes and those affected by decisions and laws, particularly victims and those who face discrimination are more clearly heard. Progressively, we will ensure that we expand our constituency of human rights defenders across the region and develop synergies and linkages with national human rights organizations and mechanisms.