ISLA has come into being as a much needed response to both the skills deficit and institutional limitations within African organizations working on strategic human rights litigation. One of the frequently cited challenges by lawyers working in women’s human...

ISLA has a Research and Publications unit that intends to produce informational resources pertaining to the cases, programmes and capacity strengthening seminars that will be taking place.  ISLA aims to be a resource on conducting strategy litigation on the...

Strategic litigation is emerging as an important tool for the advancement of human rights. ISLA is a Pan-African initiative with expertise on litigation before the African human rights systems, women’s human rights and sexual rights.  The initiative is designed...

As a pan-African litigation centre, ISLA will work within the ambit of domestic and regional law on women’s human rights and sexual rights.  These domestic and regional laws inevitably affect development and the processes associated with economic, political and...

While a number of institutions are beginning to shift emphasis away from the identity focused, LGBTI rights and SOGI framings into a broader sexual rights agenda, current litigation strategies have not caught up with this shift. With its Sexual...

ISLA has an ambitious and timely remit to strengthen strategic litigation on women’s human rights across the continent particularly in the areas of violence against women, women’s land and property rights and women’s socio economic rights. We believe that...