Transnational Justice Initiative
Transnational Justice Initiative (TJI) is a small organisation of human rights practitioners providing legal support to people arbitrarily deprived of their liberty. We bring cases before United Nations Special Procedures to secure international scrutiny and freedom from detention. Our work combines community-centred litigation with efforts to address broader structural and systemic drivers of arbitrary detention, which continue to intensify globally.
Our Work
Undertaking urgent advocacy concerning detainees’ treatment and conditions of detention.
Bringing cases to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention to challenge the legal basis of an individual’s detention.
Equipping legal practitioners, civil society organisations, and individuals in detention with the skills to engage in advocacy before the UN Special Procedures.
PROUD PARTNERS WITH
We have taken the pledge to challenge harmful narratives around migration. In the UK, increasingly hostile language is fuelling tension and hostility towards migratised and racialised communities, particularly migrants, including refugees, and helping to legitimise harmful policies. Taking this pledge is a commitment to actively resist and call out language and narratives that dehumanise, criminalise, or undermine the dignity of people on the move, while advancing ways of speaking that recognise their agency, rights, and humanity.
Read more about the pledge and the Migrants' Rights Network here.