The aim of the Program is to support the civil society initiatives directed to the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms, to promote strengthened legal consciousness and public activity at the central and local levels.

Objectives:

• Strengthening legal consciousness and public activity in defence of their rights
• Formation of efficient mechanisms to ensure access to justice, in particular for low-income individuals and other vulnerable categories
• Involvement of broader layers of population into active measures to defend human rights
• Raising public awareness of the need to reform the key legal system institutions
• Judicial protection of human rights, in particular in the public interest cases
• Increased transparency and openness in the activity of public administration

Program Priorities for 2010-2011

• Access to Justice
• Access to Information and Archives
• Human Rights Education
• Raising Public Awareness of Human Rights
• Support to Criminal Justice Reform
• Defence of Social and Economic Rights
• Counteraction to Discrimination
• Support of Local Human Rights Initiatives
• Legal Empowerment Program for the Poor
• Human Rights Litigation