About Us
The 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
- 01/08/2025
The Hind Rajab Foundation, and GLAN, acknowledge the communication from the Belgian…
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- Accountability for atrocity crimes
- 31/07/2025
As the Israeli government’s siege starves the people of Gaza, aid workers…
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- Accountability for atrocity crimes
- 31/07/2025
A new report by Bellingcat’s Justice & Accountability (J&A) Unit and the…
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- Accountability for atrocity crimes
- 21/07/2025
21 July 2025, Belgium: In what may become a turning point in…
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- Accountability for atrocity crimes
- 18/07/2025
Civil society organisations have today written to the government to say they…
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- Environment & climate change
- 10/07/2025
9th July 2025: This week brave Barbudans have been in the High…
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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