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Association for Advocacy and Legal Initiatives

Lucknow, India
Joined February 2019

Association for Advocacy and Legal Initiatives (AALI) is a women-led and women-run human rights organization committed to the protection and advancement of the human rights of women, children.

Presence in: India
Focus: Criminal Justice, Gender-based violence, Right to Information, Women's Rights

Association for Advocacy and Legal Initiatives is a women-led and women-run human rights organization committed to the protection and advancement of the human rights of women, children and other marginalized communities. With direct field presence in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarkhand and Jharkhand, AALI has been providing technical support to various human rights organisations and groups across India.

Established in 1998, AALI’s ideological framework, rooted in the United Nation’s CEDAW, envisions “an egalitarian system which recognizes women as equal human beings and promotes and protects their social, economic, and political rights guaranteed in the Constitution of India and in the international human rights treaties.”

Based on feminist perspective and human rights approach, AALI believes the law is both a powerful tool to ensure social justice as well as a site for change, hence it works with a multi-pronged strategic framework viz. Advocacy, Access to Justice and Capacity Building.

In keeping with this AALIs core mission is to

  • Facilitate access to justice for women and children, especially those from vulnerable and marginalized communities at the grass-root level
  • Better implementation and usage of laws for protection and promotion of women’s human rights through evidence based advocacy with different stake holders
  • Demanding state accountability for promoting, protecting and ensuring women’s human rights
  • Empowering women and children with an understanding of the constitutional framework and laws to enable them to demand their rights and participate in all levels of governance

Facilitate inclusion of voices from the local level in the national and global discourse on women’s human rights.