Legal empowerment

Legal empowerment approaches to accessing quality services or address human rights abuses. This may include:

• Approaches using right to information requests: Training justice seekers to file right to information (RTI) requests and advocate using that information to achieve justice in access to quality services
• Citizen-led approaches using laws and legal frameworks: The use of laws and legal frameworks by citizens (often with the support of paralegals) to redress problems encountered with accessing quality services, especially for vulnerable and marginalised groups. These typically focus on redressing individual grievances.
• Strengthening public interest litigation: Use of judicial review to address issues of human rights and equality, particularly for minority or disadvantaged groups or individuals