Category: Support ASF

  • Run the Brussels 20 km with ASF

    Run the Brussels 20 km with ASF

    On 19 May 2019, ASF will be on the starting line of the Brussels 20 km. Want to combine sporting achievement and solidarity with people seeking justice in Chad? Join our team! You commit yourself to raising a minimum of €100 from people you know. The donations raised will be used to support the work…

  • Support paralegals, essential justice actors in Chad

    Support paralegals, essential justice actors in Chad

    Chad has about 12 million inhabitants…and 135 practising lawyers, almost all based in the capital, N’Djamena. Fortunately, they are not the only ones defending people’s rights: supervised and trained by national organisations and by ASF, paralegals provide legal aid services to the most destitute. Make a donation: help us to improve the working conditions of…

  • 20 km for human rights

    20 km for human rights

    Last Sunday, ASF took part in this year’s biggest sporting event in the Belgian capital: the 39th Brussels 20 km race. In mixed cloud and sunshine, nearly 40,000 people, including the 24 members of our team, started off from the esplanade in the Parc du Cinquantenaire. The event raised €4,212 for victims of domestic violence…

  • Human rights are good for your health: run the Brussels 20 km with ASF

    Human rights are good for your health: run the Brussels 20 km with ASF

    On 27 May 2018, ASF will be on the starting line of the Brussels 20 km. Want to combine sporting achievement and solidarity with people seeking justice in Indonesia? Join our team! We will spoil you before, during, and after the race.

  • A seamless transition: ASF welcomes its new Executive Director

    A seamless transition: ASF welcomes its new Executive Director

    This week, Francesca Boniotti, Executive Director of Avocats Sans Frontières for nearly ten years (on the right in the photo), comes to the end of her mandate within our organisation and leaves to embark on new professional and personal adventures. She is succeeded by our long-time colleague, Chantal van Cutsem.

  • Thank you to the personnel of the Court of Justice of the European Union!

    Thank you to the personnel of the Court of Justice of the European Union!

    For nearly twenty years, personnel of the Court of Justice of the European Union have been gathering every year for a big quiz night, the proceeds from which are donated to charities. ASF is one of four organisations to benefit from this year’s quiz, making this the thirteenth time that we have been able to…

  • Happy birthday and long live #ASF25!

    Happy birthday and long live #ASF25!

    On 14 May 1992, a group of solicitors and barristers created Avocats Sans Frontières with the aim of “defending human rights in all countries around the world”. Twenty-five years on, our ideal of ensuring access to justice for all remains very much alive. Our organisation has gained strength from its experiences through the years, its…

  • Belgian Ministry for Development earmarks funding for access to justice

    Belgian Ministry for Development earmarks funding for access to justice

    Excellent news: ASF has just been granted significant funding for five years by the Belgian DGD (Directorate-General for Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid). This aid will be used for projects supporting justice in five countries: Burundi, Indonesia, Morocco, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This also represents ASF’s first project in Indonesia.

  • ASF receives financial support from the International Association of Young Lawyers

    ASF receives financial support from the International Association of Young Lawyers

    ASF was recently given a donation of €10,000 by the International Association of Young Lawyers (AIJA). This donation attests to the now well-established links between the NGO which advocates for human rights and the international association for young lawyers and legal professionals.

  • Thank you for your encouragement!

    Thank you for your encouragement!

    At the end of December 2016, we challenged you with this question: “What about you? What will you do to promote human rights in 2017?” Many of you responded, for example by making a donation to Avocats Sans Frontières. But also by sending us your encouragement and your messages. We would like to share some…