Empowering communities
for intersectional
justice and litigation
EQUAL is an EU-funded project supporting marginalised communities and lawyers to pursue community-driven strategic litigation to enforce fundamental rights under EU law.
WHERE WE WORK
Czechia
Hungary
Italy
Greece
WHAT WE DO
Community empowerment
Build knowledge and skills within marginalised communities by providing tools, information and training to understand and defend their rights and engage with legal professionals and fundamental rights bodies.
Community
paralegal teams
and legal clinics
Create community-based paralegal teams and local legal clinics to bridge the gap between affected communities and legal experts, reduce barriers to justice and enable early legal support.
Intersectional capacity building
Deliver training for legal professionals and fundamental rights bodies to strengthen intersectional approach.
Advocacy and
legal actions
Use evidence from the project to inform advocacy efforts at national and EU level, promoting better understanding and uptake of intersectional and community-driven strategic litigation and policy-making.
Focus group
research
Conduct focus groups with marginalised communities, legal professionals and fundamental rights bodies to identify key barriers to accessing justice and inform project actions.
OUR OBJECTIVE
To strengthen the capacity of communities, human rights lawyers, and other stakeholders to advance intersectional, community-driven strategic litigation under EU law, including the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights.
WHO WE ARE
PROJECT DURATION
July 2025 - June 2027
OUR RESOURCES
As part of the EQUAL project, we will publish different resources to support intersectional, community-driven strategic litigation. These will be added here on a rolling basis.
Co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Education and Culture Executive Agency. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
(Grant agreement number 101215016, CERV-2024-CHAR-LITI)