PROTECTION, ACCOUNTABILITY & JUSTICE
Protecting People. Combating Impunity.
Advancing Justice. The Protection, Accountability & Justice Division is dedicated to protecting individuals and communities affected by human rights violations while promoting accountability, access to justice, and effective remedies. At the Confederation for Democracy and Human Rights (CDDH), we believe that protecting victims, supporting those at risk, documenting violations, and combating impunity are essential to strengthening the rule of law, restoring human dignity, and building peaceful, democratic, and resilient societies. This Division brings together CDDH's specialised programmes that focus on protecting human rights defenders, political prisoners, political exiles, and survivors of torture, while documenting human rights violations, supporting accountability processes, and promoting justice through national, regional, and international mechanisms. Through research, documentation, monitoring, advocacy, legal engagement, capacity building, strategic partnerships, and international cooperation, the Protection, Accountability & Justice Division works to prevent human rights violations, protect those most at risk, strengthen accountability mechanisms, and ensure that victims have access to truth, justice, reparations, and guarantees of non-recurrence.
Programmes
Human Rights
Defenders Protecting and empowering individuals and organisations working peacefully to promote and defend human rights through protection initiatives, advocacy, emergency assistance, capacity building, and international cooperation.
Political Prisoners
Promoting the rights, protection, and release of political prisoners through documentation, legal advocacy, international engagement, and support for justice and accountability.
Political Exiles
Supporting individuals forced to flee persecution by promoting protection, legal assistance, advocacy, durable solutions, and respect for their fundamental rights
Prevention of Torture & Ill-Treatment
Preventing torture and other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment through monitoring, advocacy, detention reform, survivor support, and accountability initiatives.
Documentation & Investigations
Documenting, verifying, analysing, and preserving evidence of human rights violations to strengthen advocacy, accountability, justice, and institutional reform.
Accountability & Transitional Justice
Promoting truth, justice, reparations, institutional reform, and guarantees of non-recurrence while supporting national and international accountability processes for serious human rights violations.
Division Objective
To protect individuals and communities affected by human rights violations, strengthen accountability, combat impunity, and advance justice through evidence-based documentation, strategic advocacy, legal engagement, institutional cooperation, and international action.
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Explore the six programmes of the Protection, Accountability & Justice Division to discover how CDDH protects those at risk, documents human rights violations, supports victims, advances accountability, and promotes justice at national, regional, and international levels.