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Beyond the Rhetoric: Why Donors Need to Match Talk with Action When It Comes to Unrestricted Funding

Clare Gibson Nangle,

Shena Cavallo,

Celia Turner,

Jen Bokoff

March 6, 2024 Inside Philanthropy

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Legal Empowerment in Action: Climate Change Litigation in Brazil

Rudy Massamba

August 1, 2023

Image from Legal Empowerment Fund convening in Kenya. Photo credit: Namati

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Reflections from the Field: Who Needs Lawyers Anyway?

Alison Miranda

April 12, 2023

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Access to justice and human rights are two sides of the same coin

Hina Jilani

December 9, 2022 Business Day

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What We Learned from the LEF’s First Round of Funding

Atieno Odhiambo

July 21, 2022

At a protest, a sign written on cardboard reads, "We demand justice + change."

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Closing the Global Justice Gap

Atieno Odhiambo

June 10, 2022 Alliance Magazine

a small group of activists in Morocco stand outside their office, fists raised in victory

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COVID Set Justice Back. How Do We Leap Forward?

Atieno Odhiambo

May 11, 2022 World Justice Project

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How Legal Empowerment Drives Systemic Change

Atieno Odhiambo

March 30, 2022 The Conduit

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Fund 101: What Is Flexible Funding?

David Mattingly

March 10, 2022 Fund for Global Human Rights

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Conduit Conversations With Atieno Odhiambo

Atieno Odhiambo

February 25, 2022 The Conduit

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Salvadoran Foreign Agent Law Threatens Human Rights Movements

Fund for Global Human Rights

February 9, 2022 Nonprofit Quarterly

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Legal Empowerment Fund: Everything to Know About the New Effort to Close the Global Justice Gap

Kate Nakamura

December 21, 2021 Global Citizen