About

The Global Initiative Against Impunity for International Crimes and Serious Human Rights Violations: Making Justice Work is a civil society-led initiative that seeks to address an increasing climate of impunity for core international crimes and serious human rights violations through fostering comprehensive justice and accountability. 

PARTICIPATION:  We aim to enhance survivors and civil society’s participation in shaping inclusive justice and accountability processes, ending their exclusion, which undermines prospects for achieving meaningful justice and long-term sustainable change. 

JUSTICE: We seek to strengthen formal and informal justice and accountability processes, including through survivors’ contributions and dialogue with justice providers, and through addressing gaps in knowledge that enable impunity to continue. 

ACCOUNTABILITY: We engage with policy and decision-makers to put the fight against impunity back as a priority on the political agenda, seeking to increase their commitments and actions to fulfil victims and survivors’ rights to truth, justice, and reparation.

SURVIVOR-CENTERED: All our actions are guided by a survivor-centered approach that promotes a victim-centered, trauma-informed and gender-responsive approach, where victims are fully equal actors. This approach is rooted in a broad understanding of impunity, its root causes and the systemic drivers that enable impunity to endure. 

COLLABORATIVE: We foster coordination with other initiatives and the exchange of knowledge and experience among survivors and other stakeholders to increase awareness on issues related to the fight against impunity, including addressing misconceptions and understanding of the root causes of impunity. 

GLOBAL: The Global Initiative against Impunity operates worldwide with a special focus on 27 countries in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. We also seek have a significant impact on the rule of law, accountability standards, and atrocity prevention in other countries in their regions.

WHO WE ARE: The Global Initiative against Impunity is led by eight international NGOs (Civil Rights Defenders, European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights, FIDH, Impunity Watch, Parliamentarians for Global Action, REDRESS, TRIAL International, Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice) and the Coalition for the International Criminal Court, with the support of two associate partners (International Commission of Jurists and the Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities).