🇳🇬 NIGERIA

Environmental Rights Action / Friends of the Earth Nigeria

🌍 Benin City, Nigeria, +234 8023649890; 8059402385
⚖️ Environment (national & trans-national experiences); Health
💼️ Gas flaring lawsuit (re oil companies in Nigeria); Shell lawsuit (re oil pollution in Nigeria)
👥 Prince CHIMA Williams Esq., [email protected]

LawEdge Enviro-Advocacy Project

🌍 Nigeria, +2348037235955
⚖️ Environment law - gas flaring, oil pollution, granite mining pollution
💼️ Gas flaring lawsuit (re oil companies in Nigeria)
👥 George Ogara, [email protected]; Emeka Eze; Christie Omeke; Godrey Okonkwo; Charles Menkiti

🇿🇦 SOUTH AFRICA

Abrahams Kiewitz Inc.

🌍 Cape Town, So. Africa, +27 21 914 4842
⚖️ Land rights; Right to food
💼️ Apartheid reparations lawsuits (re So. Africa);Gold miner silicosis litigation (re So. Africa); Class action against bread companies (re alleged price fixing)
👥 Charles Abrahams, [email protected]

Centre for Applied Legal Studies

🌍 Johannesburg, So. Africa, +27 11 717 8600
⚖️ Environment; Housing; Access to water; Gender discrimination; Access to information; Financial institutions
👥 Louis Snyman, [email protected]
💻 https://www.wits.ac.za/cals/

Keerom Street Chambers

🌍 Cape Town, So. Africa, + 27 21 424 9695
⚖️ Discrimination
💼️ South African Airways lawsuit (re HIV discrimination)
👥 Anton Katz
💻 [email protected]

Legal Resources Centre

🌍 Cape Town (+27 21 879 2398), Johannesburg (+27 11 038 9709), Durban (+27 31 301 7572), & Makhanda (+27 46 622 9230); So. Africa
⚖️ Land; Natural resources; Education
💼️ Harmony Gold Mining (re lung disease); Baleni v Minister (re informed consent on mining land rights); Gongqose v Minister (re access to fishing); Wild Coast v Minister (Shell case) (re community consultation on seismic blasting).
👥 Wilmien Wicomb, [email protected]; Sharita Samuel, [email protected]
💻 www.lrc.org.za
📝 Read Wilmien Wicomb's insights here

Richard Spoor Inc. Attorneys

🌍 Johannesburg. So. Africa, +011 482 6081
⚖️  Health
💼️ Gold miner silicosis litigation (re So. Africa)
👥 Richard Spoor, [email protected]
💻 http://goldminersilicosis.co.za/

🇹🇿 TANZANIA

Legal & Human Rights Centre

🌍 Dar es Salaam (+255 22 2773038/48) & Arusha (+255 27 2544187), Tanzania
⚖️ Environment; Land rights; Labour; Discrimination
💼️ Vilima Vitatu lawsuit (re land rights); African Barrick Gold lawsuit (re Tanzania)
👥 Flaviana Charles, [email protected]; George Masud, [email protected]; Shilinde Ngalula, [email protected]
💻 https://www.humanrights.or.tz/

🇮🇳 INDIA

Human Rights Law Network

🌍 New Delhi, India +91-11-24374501
⚖️ Public interest litigation; Labour rights; Anti-trafficking; Environment
👥 Colin Gonsalves, Harsh Dobhal, Sanjai Sharma, [email protected]
💻 https://hrln.org/

Jananeethi

🌍 Kerala, India 
⚖️ Public interest litigation; Equality; Anti-trafficking; Environment; Consumer Protection; Right to Information; Right to Service 
👥 Adv.George Pulikuthiyil, [email protected]; Adv.P.Sunilkumar, [email protected]; Adv.C.P.Maya, [email protected]
💻 http://www.jananeethi.org/

🇮🇩 INDONESIA

"Erik" - Desriko Malayu Putra

🌍 Jakarta, Indonesia
⚖️ Private Law, Civil Law, Adminitrative, Human Rights, etc
👥 Desriko, [email protected]; [email protected]
💻 www.pbhi.or.id

LBH Jakarta (Jakarta Legal Aid Institute)

🌍 Jakarta, Indonesia, +62 21 31 45 518
⚖️ Freedom of Expression; Privacy; Unfair trial; Access to water
👥 Febi Yonesta, [email protected]; [email protected]
💻 https://bantuanhukum.or.id/
📝 Read Febi Yonesta's insights here

Legal Aid Center for the Press (LBH Pers)

🌍 Indonesia, +62 821-4688-8873
⚖️ Indonesia Media/Press Law, Criminal Law, Civil Law, Administrative Law, Constitutional Court and Human Rights
💼️ Internet shutdown lawsuit, other strategic litigation regarding freedom of expression and the press
👥 Ade Wahyudin, [email protected]
💻 www.lbhpers.org
📝 Read Ade Wahyudin's insights here

🇲🇾 MALAYSIA

Bar Council Environment & Climate Change Committee

🌍 Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, +603 2050 2099, Officer in charge: Ms. Shegi [email protected]
⚖️ Public interest environmental law, constitutional law, administrative law, human rights
💼️ No ongoing cases at the moment.
👥  i) Saha Deva ([email protected]), Co-Chairperson ii) Jia Yaw, Co-Chairperson iii) Roger Chan ([email protected]) Deputy Chairperson
💻 www.malaysianbar.org.my/environment_and_climate_change/
📝 Read Jia Yaw Kiu's insights here
📝 Read Roger Chan Weng Keng's insights here

🇲🇲 MYANMAR

Legal Clinic Myanmar

🌍 Yangon, +95 (0)9 450048660, +95 (0)9-33376993, +95 (0)9-33376994; Rakhine, +95 (0)9 250883064; Kachin, +95 (0)9-254278326; Meik Hti Lar, +95 (0)-450542182; Pya Pone, +95 (0)-421747308; Mandalay, +95 (0)9-43100734
⚖️ Human trafficking; Children; Labour; Torture; Migrant women; Beatings & violence
👥 Click here for detailed contact list

Dawei Probono Lawyer Network

🌍 Dawei City, Tanintharyi Division, Myanmar, +95 -9 450 990 238
⚖️ Land rights; Access to water; Environment
💼️ Myanmar Pongpipat lawsuit (re environmental & health impact of Heinda tin mine)
👥 Daw Aye Mon Thu, [email protected]; Daw Tin Tin Thet, [email protected]; Daw Naw Pa Saw Phaw, Daw Mi Mi Soe; [email protected]
💻 https://www.facebook.com/daweilawyers/?fref=ts

🇳🇵 NEPAL

Lawyers’ Association for Human Rights of Nepalese Indigenous Peoples (LAHURNIP)

🌍Anamnagar, Kathmandu Nepal, +997 1 5795510 (Cell No. +977-9851007932)
⚖️ Criminal, Civil, Human Rights Law, Indigenous Peoples’ Rights
👥Shankar Limbu, [email protected]
💻 www.lahurnip.org
📝 Read Shankar Limbu's insights here

🇵🇭 PHILIPPINES

ENVIRONMENTAL LEGAL ASSISTANCE CENTER (ELAC)

🌍 Puerto Princesa City, 5300 Palawan, Philippines
⚖️ Environment; Human Rights
💼 Mining, coal, monocrop plantations, infrastructure, forestry, fisheries
👥 Grizelda Mayo Anda, [email protected]; Raffy Pajares, [email protected]; Regina Bella Dioso, [email protected]; Jansen Jontila, [email protected]; Julius Concepcion, [email protected]
💻 www.elacphilippines.org
📝 Read Grizelda Mayo Anda's insights here

IDEALS

🌍 Quezon City, Philippines, +63-2-436547 
⚖️ Business & Human Rights, Tax, International Trade, & Labor
👥 Antonio Salvador, Melissa Jane Comafay, [email protected]

SALIGAN

🌍 Quezon City, Philippines, +632 4266001 loc. 4858-4860
⚖️ Land rights; Labour; Environment
💼️ Aerial spraying ban lawsuit (re banana companies in Philippines)
👥 Marie Hazel E. Lavitoria, [email protected]; [email protected]
💻 https://saligan.org/

🇰🇷 SOUTH KOREA

GongGam Human Rights Law Foundation

🌍 3F, 29-6, Changdeokgung-gil, Jongno-gu, Seoul, 03058, Rep. of Korea (Tel: 82-2-3675-7740)
⚖️ Women and children, Persons with disabilities, Migrants and refugees, Poverty and welfare, Precarious workers, Public interest law in general, LGBTIQ, Transnational human rights, Legal education and training
💼️ Constitutional appeal on the statute criminalizing abortion (2019), Proposal and subsequent enactment of Refugee law (2009-2012), Compensation claim suit against the government in salt farm slave case (2018), Submitted petition to UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights on Lao Dam Disaster (Xe Pian-Xe Namnoy saddle dam collapse)
👥  Please kindly understand that we do not provide individual contact information on our lawyers. Please direct your requests to our official email address ([email protected]), and the case will be referred to the lawyer member best suited to handle such cases.
💻 https://www.kpil.org

🇹🇭 THAILAND

Community Resource Centre

🌍 Bangkok, Thailand, +66 817 725 843
⚖️ Environment; Indigenous peoples; Health
💼️ Lawsuit against Electric Generating Authority of Thailand (re purchase of electricity from Xayaburi dam in Laos)
👥 Sor Rattanamanee Polkla, [email protected]; [email protected]
💻 http://crcthai.blogspot.com/
📝 Read Sor Rattanamanee Polkla's insights here

🇬🇧 UNITED KINGDOM

Brick Court Chambers

🌍 London, UK, +44 20 7379 3550
⚖️ General Business and Human Rights; Mandatory Human Rights Due Diligence; Public International Law; Public Law; Corporate Law
💼️ Vedanta v Lungowe; Okpabi v Shell
👥 Robert McCorquodale, [email protected]; Tim Johnston, [email protected]; Paul Bowen, [email protected]
💻 https://www.brickcourt.co.uk

ClientEarth

🌍 London, UK (and other countries worldwide), +44 (0)20 7749 5970
⚖️ Environment; Climate change; Access to information; Complaint mechanisms; Shareholder activism; Corporate reporting
👥 Sophie Marjanac, [email protected]; Johnny White, [email protected]
💻 https://www.clientearth.org/
📝 Read Johnny White's insights here

Climate Counsel

🌍 London, UK & the Hague, Netherlands, +44 (0)7484822740
⚖️ Ecocide, Intl. Criminal Law, International Human Rights Law
👥 Richard J Rogers, [email protected]
💻 https://www.climatecounsel.org/
📝 Read Richard Roger's insights here

Deighton Pierce Glynn Solicitors

🌍 London, UK, +44 207 407 0007
⚖️ Beatings & violence; Environment; Health; Housing; Human trafficking; Privacy; Security issues & conflict zones; Torture
💼️ Lawsuit against BP (re complicity kidnap & torture of trade unionist in Colombia); OECD complaint against Formula 1 race organisers (re human rights impact in Bahrain)
👥 Daniel Carey, [email protected]; Adam Hundt, [email protected]; Sue Willman, [email protected]; Zubier Yazdani, [email protected]
💻 https://dpglaw.co.uk/

Doughty Street Chambers

🌍 London, UK, +44 20 7404 1313
⚖️ Displacement; Environment; Health; Illness; Deaths; General Business and Human Rights; OECD Guidelines complaints; Mandatory Human Rights Due Diligence
💼️ Koh Kong sugar plantation lawsuits (re Cambodia); Shell lawsuit (re oil spills & Bodo community in Nigeria); Trafigura lawsuits (re Côte d’Ivoire)
👥 Tim Cooke-Hurle, [email protected]; Elise Groulx Diggs, Associate Tenant, [email protected]; Krishnendu Mukherjee, [email protected]  
💻 https://www.doughtystreet.co.uk/
📝 Read Krishnendu Mukherjee's insights here

Global Diligence

🌍 London, UK, +44 7484 822 740  
⚖️ Land rights; Complicity; Human rights impact assessments & stakeholder engagement in complex environments
💼️ Koh Kong sugar plantation lawsuits (re Cambodia); ICC complaint against ruling elite (re Cambodia land grabbing)
👥 Richard Rogers, [email protected]
💻 https://www.globaldiligence.com/
📝 Read Richard Roger's insights here

Global Legal Action Network

🌍 Galway, Ireland; London, UK; +4447521203427
⚖️ Supply chains; Environmental & economic justice; War & occupation; Migration & border violence; Complicity; Torture & ill-treatment
💼️ Uzbek forced labour cotton lawsuit; Dutch Shipping company criminal complaint (re use of forced labour)
👥 Gearóid Ó Cuinn, [email protected]; Gerry Liston, [email protected]; Dearbhla Minogue, [email protected]; Valentina Azarova; [email protected]
💻 https://www.glanlaw.org/
📝 Read Gearóid Ó Cuinn's insights here

Global Rights Compliance

🌍 London, UK, +44 7767 326 881 & +33 6 77 51 82 35
⚖️ International criminal law; Environmental law; Security issues & conflict zones
💼️ Koh Kong sugar plantation lawsuits (re Cambodia)
👥 Wayne Jordash, [email protected]
💻 https://www.globalrightscompliance.com/

Hausfeld

🌍 London, UK, +44 207 665 5000 & Washington, DC, USA, +1 202 540 7200
⚖️ Discrimination; Environnment; Health; Deaths; Illness; Injuries; Security issues & conflict zones; Forced labour
💼️ Apartheid reparations lawsuits (re So. Africa); Union Carbide/Dow lawsuit (re Bhopal)
👥 Ingrid Gubbay (UK), [email protected], Michael Hausfeld (USA), [email protected]
💻 http://www.hausfeld.com/

See also contact in the North America section

Leigh Day

🌍 London, UK, +44 20 7650 1200
⚖️ Complicity; Injuries; Killings; Access to water; Environment; Security issues & conflict; Beatings & violence; Denial of freedom of movement; Intimidation & threats; Protests; Rape & sexual abuse; Torture & ill-treatment; Health; Illness
💼️ African Barrick Gold lawsuit (re Tanzania); BP lawsuit (re Colombia); Cape/Gencor lawsuits (re So. Africa); Monterrico Metals lawsuit (re Peru); Shell lawsuit (re oil spills & Bodo community in Nigeria), Trafigura lawsuits (re Cote d'Ivoire)
👥 Martyn Day, [email protected]; Daniel Leader, [email protected]; Sapna Malik, [email protected]; Gene Matthews, [email protected]; Richard Meeran, [email protected]; Oliver Holland, [email protected]
💻 https://www.leighday.co.uk/

Matrix Chambers

🌍 London, UK, +44 20 7404 3447
⚖️ Complicity; Access to water; Environment; Security issues & conflict zones; Health
💼️ BP lawsuit (re Colombia); Shell lawsuit (re oil pollution in Nigeria)
👥 Richard Hermer, [email protected]; Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh, [email protected]
💻 https://www.matrixlaw.co.uk/

PGMBM

🌍 London, UK, +44 3330 155 900
⚖️ Transnational litigation & group litigation/arbitration in business & human rights; Environment; Private international law; Consumer law & data protection; Competition law
💼️ BHP & Vale lawsuit (re dam collapse in Brazil, filed in the UK); TÜV SÜD civil lawsuit (re Brumadinho dam collapse filed in Germany)
👥 Pedro Henrique C. A. Martins, [email protected]
💻 www.pgmbm.com

🇨🇴 COLOMBIA

Alirio Uribe Muñoz

🌍 Bogotá, Colombia, +57 312 587 49 58, +57 382 44 84
⚖️ Criminal law; Labour rights; Human rights
👥 Rosa María Mateus Parra, [email protected]

Colectivo de Abogados José Alvear Restrepo - CAJAR

🌍 Calle 16 No. 6-66 Piso 25, Bogota, Colombia, +57 1 7421313 / +57 3143750761 / +57 312 5874958
⚖️ Human rights law; economic, social and cultural rights; peace and armed conflict
👥 Luis Carlos Montenegro Almeida, [email protected]; Alirio Uribe Muñoz, [email protected]
💻 https://www.colectivodeabogados.org/

Dejusticia

🌍 Bogotá, Colombia, +571 6083605
⚖️ Indigenous peoples; Environment
👥 Diana Guarnizo, [email protected]
💻 https://www.dejusticia.org/

Francisco Ramírez

🌍 Bogotá, Colombia, +57 317 3478695 / +57 3505362
⚖️ International law; Labour rights; Human rights
👥 Francisco Ramirez Cuellar, [email protected]
💻 https://corpotratierra.org/noticias/

Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense (AIDA)

🌍 Bogota, Colombia, +57 1 232 4246
⚖️ Environmental law, Human rights law
👥 Liliana Ávila,  [email protected]; Rosa Peña Lizarazo, [email protected]
💻 https://aida-americas.org/

[see also entries for Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, Mexico, Peru]

🇨🇷 COSTA RICA

Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense (AIDA)

🌍 San José, +506 2283 7080
⚖️ Environmental law, Marine protection
👥 Haydée Rodríguez: [email protected]; Gladys Martínez, [email protected]
💻 https://aida-americas.org/

[see also entries for Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru]

🇪🇨 ECUADOR

Fromboliere Abogados

🌍 Quito, Ecuador, +593 0993977811
⚖️ Environment; Human rights
💼️ Texaco/Chevron lawsuits (re Ecuador)
👥 Pablo Fajardo Mendoza, [email protected]

Centro de Derechos Humanos de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador

🌍 Quito, Ecuador, +593 2 2991700 ext. 1427
⚖️ Environment; Human rights
💼️ Lawsuit by Kichwa indigenous people of Sarayaku against Ecuador (re oil concession)
👥 Mario Melo Cevallos, [email protected]
💻 https://www.puce.edu.ec/centros-de-investigacion.php#

🇭🇳 HONDURAS

Red de Abogadas Defensoras de Derechos Humanos (Network of Women Human Rights Lawyers and Defenders)

🌍 Choluteca, Honduras, +504 2780-0654
⚖️ Human rights; Gender & sexual violence; Economic, social & cultural rights; Criminal law
💼️ Choluteca communities re Scatec Solar’s solar megaproject “Los Prados”
👥 Nidia Castillo, [email protected]; Denia Castillo, [email protected]
💻 reddeabogadas.hn

🇲🇽 MEXICO

Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense (AIDA)

🌍 Mexico City, +52 55 5212 0141
⚖️ Environmental law, Human rights, Climate change
👥 Andrea Rodriguez, [email protected]; Haydée Rodríguez: [email protected]; Gladys Martínez,[email protected]
💻 https://aida-americas.org/

[see also entries for Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Peru]

🇵🇪 PERU

Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense (AIDA)

🌍 Lima, Peru
⚖️ Environmental law, Human rights law
👥 María José Veramendi Villa, [email protected]
💻 https://aida-americas.org/

[see also entries for Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico]

Instituto de Defensa Legal (IDL)

🌍 Lima, Peru
⚖️ Indigenoups Peoples' rights, Environmental law, Human rights law
👥 Juan Carlos Ruiz Molleda, [email protected]
💻https://www.idl.org.pe/

🇯🇴 JORDAN

Tamkeen Center for Legal Aid and Human Rights

🌍 Amman, Jordan, +962 6 5539501
⚖️ Migrant workers
👥 Linda Kalash, [email protected]; [email protected]
💻 http://www.tamkeen-jo.org/about_us.htm

🇵🇸 PALESTINE

Al-Haq

🌍 Ramallah - West Bank, Palestine, +972 (2) 2954646/7/9
⚖️ Displacements; Land rights; Housing; Human Rights Defenders; Natural resources
💼️ Lawsuit against Green Park Intl. (re Bil’in villagers' land grabbing); Criminal complaint against Riwal (re complicity in war crimes & crimes against humanity through construction of Annexation Wall)
👥 Please use the contact form here
💻 https://www.alhaq.org/

Cohen Milstein

🌍 Washington, DC, USA, +1 202 408 4600
⚖️ Complicity; Human trafficking; Killings; Security issues & conflict zones
💼️ Chiquita lawsuits (re Colombia); ExxonMobil lawsuit (re Aceh); KBR lawsuit (re human trafficking in Iraq)
👥 Benjamin Brown, [email protected]; Agnieszka Fryzman, [email protected]

Corporate Accountability Lab

🌍 Chicago, IL, USA, +(1)773 346 5545
⚖️ Human rights, contract, trade
👥 Charity Ryerson, [email protected], Alicia Brudney, Avery Kelly
💻 https://legaldesign.org/
📝 Read Charity Ryerson's insights here

EarthRights International

🌍 Washington, DC, USA, +1 202 466 5188
⚖️ Environment; Health; Illness; Indigenous peoples; Killings; Security issues & conflict zones
💼️ Chevron lawsuit (re Nigeria);Chiquita lawsuits (re Colombia); Union Carbide/Dow lawsuit (re Bhopal); Unocal lawsuit (re Myanmar); Shell lawsuit (re Nigeria - Kiobel & Wiwa)
👥 Rick Herz, Litigation Coordinator, [email protected]; Katie Redford, Co-founder & Director, [email protected]; Marco Simons, Legal Director, [email protected]
💻 www.earthrights.org

Environmental Defender Law Center

🌍 Bozeman, Montana, USA, +1 406 586 8294 & Brazil
⚖️ Human Rights & environment; Indigenous peoples; Health; Illness
💼️ Monterrico Metals lawsuit (re Peru); Boliden lawsuit (re Chile)
👥 Lewis Gordon, Director, [email protected]
💻 https://edlc.org/

See also contact in Brazil, in Latin America section

George Washington University Law School

🌍 Washington, DC, USA, +1 202 994 6261
⚖️ Alien Tort Claims Act; Complicity; Torture & ill-treament
💼️ Shell lawsuit (re Nigeria - Kiobel & Wiwa)
👥 Ralph Steinhardt, [email protected]
💻 https://www.law.gwu.edu/ralph-g-steinhardt?id=1749

Harvard Law International Human Rights Clinic

🌍 Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, +1 617 495 5202
⚖️ Alien Tort Claims Act (USA); Security issues & conflict zones
💼️ Abu Ghraib lawsuits against CACI, Titan (now L-3); Apartheid reparations lawsuits (re So. Africa); Shell lawsuit (re Nigeria - Kiobel & Wiwa); Unocal lawsuit (re Myanmar)
👥 Tyler Giannini, [email protected]; Susan Farbstein, [email protected]
💻 https://hrp.law.harvard.edu/clinic/

Hausfeld & Co. LLP

🌍 Washington, DC, USA, +1 202 540 7200 & London, UK
⚖️ Complicity; Health; Illness; Torture & ill-treament
💼️ Apartheid reparations lawsuits (re So. Africa); Union Carbide/Dow lawsuit (re Bhopal)
👥 Michael Hausfeld, [email protected]
💻 http://www.hausfeldllp.co.uk/

See also contact in UK, in Europe section

Human Trafficking Pro Bono Legal Center

🌍 Washington, DC, USA
⚖️ Human trafficking, modern slavery
👥 Martina Vandenberg, [email protected] 
💻 https://www.htlegalcenter.org/

International Lawyers Assisting Workers (ILAW) Network

🌍 Washington DC, USA, +1 (202) 974-8385
⚖️ Labour
👥 Monika Mehta, [email protected]; [email protected]
💻 https://www.ilawnetwork.com/

International Rights Advocates

🌍 Washington, DC, USA, +1 202 543 5811
⚖️ Killings; Labour; Security issues & conflict zones
💼️ Chiquita lawsuits (re Colombia); Coca-Cola lawsuit (re Colombia); Drummond lawsuit (re Colombia); ExxonMobil lawsuit (re Aceh); Nestlé, Cargill, Archer Daniels Midland lawsuit (re Côte d'Ivoire); Occidental lawsuit (re Colombia)
👥 Terry Collingsworth, [email protected]
💻 http://www.iradvocates.org/

Schonbrun DeSimone Seplow Harris & Hoffman

🌍 Venice, California, USA, +1 310 396 0731
⚖️ Complicity; Environment; Killings; Security issues & conflict zones; Torture & ill-treament
💼️ Apartheid reparations lawsuits (re So. Africa); Unocal lawsuit (re Myanmar); Shell lawsuit (re Nigeria - Kiobel & Wiwa)
👥 Paul Hoffman, [email protected]
💻 https://www.losangelesemploymentlawyer.com/