The Global Strategic Litigation Council (GSLC) helps advocates and organizations – including those with forced displacement backgrounds – share knowledge, collectively identify priorities, and execute litigation and legal advocacy strategies to advance the rights of refugees and migrants. In doing so, it aims to support the consistent and progressive development of international law relating to displacement worldwide. 

Today, the rights of people on the move – including more than 32.5 million refugees – are under attack around the world. Since its launch in September 2021, the GSLC has connected over 250 litigators, advocates, organizations, and researchers from every continent of the globe working to defend and expand those rights.

To date, the GSLC has also offered direct support for its members, including litigation strategy, brief writing, and drafting pleadings. Most recently, the Council filed a legal intervention (amicus curiae) in the Constitutional Court of Colombia on a case relating to the mass cancellation of citizenship documents of approximately 42,000 Colombian-Venezuelans. The Council also co-filed an amicus brief in the Mexican Supreme Court with the International Detention Coalition regarding Alternatives to Detention (ATDs).

In 2023, the Global Strategic Litigation Council is co-convening a series of regional consultations to create knowledge-sharing and collaboration spaces and identify new strategic litigation to support. Each regional consultation is co-convened with members of the Council – NGOs working directly with refugees and migrants around the world.

You can find more information about the current work of the GSLC, upcoming priorities, and how you can get involved below: