Legal Empowerment

It’s time to close the global justice gap.

Access to justice is a fundamental human right. But an estimated two-thirds of the global population—5.1 billion people—live without it.

The Legal Empowerment Fund (LEF), a program hosted by the Fund for Global Human Rights, offers flexible funding and strategic support to the growing legal empowerment movement, enabling communities to know, use, and shape the law. Through legal empowerment strategies like advocacy, education, and litigation, communities supported by the LEF are building a world where everyone has access to justice.