About Us
Global Legal Action Network (GLAN) is a unique non-profit organisation that works with affected communities to pursue innovative legal actions across borders, challenging states and other powerful actors involved with systemic injustice.
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- Accountability for atrocity crimes
- 02/12/2025
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A coalition of international legal and advocacy rights groups – Abolitionist Law…
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- Abuses in value chains
- 13/11/2025
As the result of a formal complaint lodged in January 2021 with…
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- Accountability for atrocity crimes
- 13/11/2025
13 November 2025: The High Court’s decision that it was for the…
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- Environment & climate change
- 06/11/2025
The UN secretary general Antonio Guterres is clear: COP30 in Brazil is…
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- Abuses in value chains
- 16/10/2025
The High Court of Ireland granted the Applicants – a Palestinian individual…
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- Accountability for atrocity crimes
- 10/10/2025
Special hearing On 9 October, a special hearing of the Court of…
The Global Legal Action Network (GLAN)
GLAN is an independent organisation made up of lawyers and investigators that identifies and pursues legal actions that tackle power actors involved in serious human rights violations and environmental harms by working in partnership with other international and local grassroots organisations.
Our committed team is spread across multiple countries and we have offices in Ireland and the UK.
- Independent | not-for-profit organisation
- Combines investigation with legal action
- Uses law to tackle global and cross-border issues
- Promotes & enforces human rights standards
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