Our specialised practice areas for our advisory, research, and training services.
PRACTICE AREAS.
Est. 2017. JHB – CPT – NBO.
The practice areas in which we implement your change by a collective of public interest lawyers, researchers, strategists, and technologists.
PRACTICE AREAS.
Promoting multilateralism, development, participation, and activism at the regional and international levels, including in the areas of:
- Enabling Democratic Participation
- Strengthening Civil Society & Activism
- Institution Building & Development
- Labour Migration Governance
Developing laws and policies that empower people, promote human rights, and enable a sustainable and resilient future, including in the areas of:
- The Rule of Law & Institution Building
- Enabling Democratic Participation
- Media Sustainability
- Electoral Integrity
- Constitutional Literacy
Protecting and promoting privacy, free speech, and access to information on- and offline, including in the areas of:
- Internet Governance
- Free Expression & Privacy Online
- Data Protection
- Disabling Disinformation
- Online Harms Reduction
- EdTech
- Open Data & Access to Knowledge
- Digital Equality
Safeguarding and promoting human rights in the development of artificial intelligence and emergent technologies, including in the areas of:
- Artificial Intelligence Governance
- Algorithmic Bias
- The Rights-Based Impacts of Emergent Technologies
- Copyright Online
Working to foster substantive equality, meaningful inclusion, and the best interests of children, including the areas of:
- Inclusive Policy
- Education
- The Best Interests of Children
- Online Harms Reduction
- Sexual Violence & Harassment
Building climate-resilience through digital transformation and climate and environmental justice, including in the areas of:
- Sustainable Technologies & Human Rights
- Just Transitions & Distributive Justice
- Climate Data & Open Governance
- Climate Change & Human Movement
- Corporate Vigilance & Value Chains
- Mitigation, Adaptation & Resilience (MARs)
- Undertaking an assessment of CSOs partnered with UNICEF to support a gender transformational approach to ending child marriage.
- Crafting an advocacy campaign in partnership with the Mozilla Foundation for the ratification of the Malabo Convention.
- Supporting the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) by facilitating consultations and public participation on the revised Santa Clara Principles on Transparency and Accountability in Content Moderation.
- Preparing research on access to climate change-related knowledge and information in South Africa in partnership with the African Climate Foundation.
- Developing a civil society accreditation mechanism and national chapter framework for the Economic, Social & Cultural Council (ECOSOCC) of the African Union to enhance civil society participation in the work of the AU.
- Drafting a comprehensive comparative analysis for the Open Government Partnership (OGP) on the content of African data protection laws.
- Developing a series of toolkits on AI Governance in Africa for the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
- Preparing a protest resilience toolkit for CIVICUS for leaders of social movements to share practical opportunities, challenges, and strategies to support the sustainability of contemporary protest movements.
- Providing research support to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in the development of a toolkit for judiciaries in Africa on legal standards on freedom of expression.
DEVELOPING A SERIES OF TOOLKITS ON AI GOVERNANCE IN AFRICA FOR THE THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION
Research | Training | AI & Emergent Technology
PREPARING A FUNDRAISING LANDSCAPE ANALYSIS FOR THE INTERNATIONAL NETWORK OF CIVIL LIBERTIES ORGANISATIONS
Fundraising Support
PREPARING RESEARCH ON ACCESS TO CLIMATE CHANGE-RELATED KNOWLEDGE AND INFORMATION in partnership with THE AFRICAN CLIMATE FOUNDATION
Research | Climate Justice & Sustainbility
COMPELLING ACCESS TO SOUTH AFRICA’s COVID-19 VACCINE PROCUREMENT CONTRACTS FOR THE HEALTH JUSTICE INITIATIVE
Strategic & Test Case Litigation
Developing web-based resources and providing IT and systems integration support to the Constitution hill trust
Web Development | IT Services
Assisting UNICEF with research on Gender-transformative approaches for civil society organisations
Research | Equality & Inclusion