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PROMOTING, PROTECTING AND ENFORCING HUMAN RIGHTS
Accountability Unit is a human rights NGO which advances the rights of people in conflict settings. We also work with partners in countries where there is an urgent need to legally support those who face severe human rights violations and are either under-represented or experience gendered harm. Our vision is the abolition of conflict-related sexual violence and gender-based harm. With that in mind we seek to: obtain legal redress for survivors of gender-based rights violations in conflict settings; hold to account perpetrators of conflict related sexual violence; and advance gender mainstreaming and awareness of gender based rights across all areas of our work.
About us
We seek to promote, protect and enforce the human rights of people who are the victims of violations due to their sex or gender.
Our work
Our work is strategically geared towards defending the human rights of oppressed individuals, vulnerable groups and minorities.
Our Legal Note on International Law Protections for Refugee Women in Relation to Trafficking outlines the international law protections for refugee women in relation to trafficking.
Our Legal Note on EU Protections for Child Refugees outlines the EU law rights and protections afforded to child refugees.
The difference in the way that the law treats women now is incredible compared to how it used to be. In the past, when you represented a woman who had been abused, the court used to say it didn’t want to know about her past, it only wanted to judge her on the present. But if you don’t contextualise a woman’s history of abuse, then she will simply not get justice.
— Baroness Helena Kennedy QC (Patron)