Access to Justice

About this Topic

The Asia Foundation works on access to justice, including expanding access to legal aid through legal aid offices and clinics, and increasing the number of lawyers providing legal aid and the number of female lawyers through scholarships for professional legal training and internships. Our programs also work on countering human trafficking and dispute resolution.

Latest Publications

  • Formative Research on Child Trafficking Overview

    Formative Research on Child Trafficking Overview

  • Securing Legal Recognition for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Indonesia

    Securing Legal Recognition for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Indonesia

  • Studi Sikap Publik Terhadap Penerapan Keadilan Restoratif di Indonesia

    Studi Sikap Publik Terhadap Penerapan Keadilan Restoratif di Indonesia

News and Highlights

  • Strengthening Community Leaders in Bangladesh to Fight Disinformation and Promote Religious Inclusion 

    Strengthening Community Leaders in Bangladesh to Fight Disinformation and Promote Religious Inclusion 

    On September 13 and 14, 2024, The Asia Foundation organized a two-day workshop in Rangpur, Bangladesh as part of our Community-Driven Approach Promoting Religious Equality and Access to Justice project […]

  • Nepal’s Silent Crisis: Human Trafficking Under the Spotlight

    Nepal’s Silent Crisis: Human Trafficking Under the Spotlight

    Well-intentioned laws and policies still do not adequately protect Nepal from human trafficking. It could have international consequences.

  • Shaping Justice: Seminar on Strengthening Access to Justice Amid Indonesia’s KUHP Revisions

    Shaping Justice: Seminar on Strengthening Access to Justice Amid Indonesia’s KUHP Revisions

    The recent revisions to the Indonesian Penal Code (KUHP) have sparked discussions about personal freedoms and civil liberties. Key provisions address adultery, and stricter regulations on religious defamation. Concerns have been raised about the ambiguity of some legal language, which could lead to enforcement challenges and potential human rights implications, particularly for marginalized groups.

  • Reducing the Price of Justice: Alternative Dispute Resolution in Bangladesh 

    Reducing the Price of Justice: Alternative Dispute Resolution in Bangladesh 

    Alternative dispute resolution continues to serve the poor and marginalized in Bangladesh, for whom the expensive and overloaded courts are often out of reach.

  • Indonesia: The Road to Restorative Justice 

    Indonesia: The Road to Restorative Justice 

    Indonesia’s prisons are bursting at the seams. An experiment in “restorative justice” offers a promising alternative to mass incarceration.

  • Nepal’s Legislative Strides to Combat Human Trafficking: Aligning with the Palermo Protocol

    Nepal’s Legislative Strides to Combat Human Trafficking: Aligning with the Palermo Protocol

    As part of the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime, The Palermo Protocol is the first legal document to provide an internationally recognized definition of human trafficking. It serves […]

  • The Makassar City Government to Publish the Mayor’s Regulation (Perwali) on Restorative Justice’s Support Services

    The Makassar City Government to Publish the Mayor’s Regulation (Perwali) on Restorative Justice’s Support Services

    The Makassar city government, in collaboration with YLBHI LBH Makassar, is currently in the final stages of drafting the Mayor’s Regulation (Perwali) on Restorative Justice’s Support Services in Indonesia. The […]

  • The Asia Foundation and Ocean Justice Initiatives Collaborate at Festival LIKE 2023 in Indonesia

    The Asia Foundation and Ocean Justice Initiatives Collaborate at Festival LIKE 2023 in Indonesia

    There’s been a lot of concern over the world’s rising temperatures. The Asia Foundation in Indonesia’s Environmental Governance program is actively supporting countries to play their part in reducing global […]

  • Promoting “Social and Behavior Change” in the Philippine Human Rights Sector

    Promoting “Social and Behavior Change” in the Philippine Human Rights Sector

    Andrei Venal is a human rights worker, but he has been called many other things: “We are called terrorists. Dissenters without cause. Rabble-rousers. When we are tagged like that, it […]

  • A Pacific Solution to a Pacific Challenge: A Human-Rights Approach to Human Trafficking

    A Pacific Solution to a Pacific Challenge: A Human-Rights Approach to Human Trafficking

    With porous borders and limited resources for enforcement, The Pacific Islands are especially susceptible to sex and labor trafficking.

  • Video: Pilot, Paratrooper, and Human Rights Advocate Ifrah Faiz

    Video: Pilot, Paratrooper, and Human Rights Advocate Ifrah Faiz

    When Ifrah Faiz turned 18, she defied the narrow expectations faced by many young women and fulfilled her childhood dream to become a paratrooper and a jet pilot in the Pakistani Air Force.

  • Human Trafficking Video Series

    Human Trafficking Video Series

    Check out this series of explanatory videos on human trafficking, in English, Sinhala, and Tamil.

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