Avocats Sans Frontières
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| Founded | 1992 |
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| Focus | Human rights |
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Area served | Development aid |
| Method | Field interventions, providing access to justice, legal aid and legal assistance |
Key people | Chantal van Cutsem, Director General Hafida Talhaoui, President of the Board of Directors |
| Employees | more than 130 full time staff world-wide |
| Website | www.asf.be |
Avocats Sans Frontières (ASF), also known in Dutch as Advocaten Zonder Grenzen (English: "Lawyers without Borders"), is an international NGO active in the human rights and development sector. Created in 1992 by a group of Belgian lawyers, ASF's main objective is to advocate for institutions and mechanisms that facilitate access to independent and fair justice systems that ensure legal security and guarantee fundamental human rights.
Avocats Sans Frontières has no affiliation with Lawyers Without Borders, and does not use an English name.
Awards
[edit]In 2007, ASF was granted the CCBE Human Rights Award by the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe.[1]
In 2009, ASF won the Law and Sustainability Prize of the Association of Flemish Jurists.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "CCBE Human Rights Award granted to Avocats Sans Frontières" (PDF). The Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE). Retrieved 16 November 2009.
- ^ "Prijs "recht en duurzaamheid" - 4 december 2009". Vlaamse Juristenverening. Retrieved 19 December 2011.
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