Mission

Our mission:To reduce the scope for corruption, violence and human rights abuse within developing-world legal systems and, thereby, enhance fairness and equality before the law in aid of national development and human dignity.GOALS FOR EACH COUNTRY:Short-term: Legal system transparency that engenders improved accountability, civic engagement and reform.Medium-term: A reduced incidence of legal system corruption, violence, human rights abuse and injustice.Long-term: Greater legal stability and predictability, reduced levels of corruption generally, greater capitalisation of assets, improved commerce and standards of living, reduced environmental degradation, reduced levels of conflict and disorder, lower incidence of radicalism and enhanced freedom of expression.

Category

Poverty Alleviation

Additional Information

Poverty, abuse, exploitation and suffering in the developing world may touch us briefly and we may donate to momentarily topical, emotive causes; but we mostly fail to tackle the deeper, root causes. The absence of justice and equality before the law is generally the root cause, because the justice sectors of most developing countries are riddled with corruption and violence. OpenTrial works to use modern technology to enhance transparency to act as a check on this. The internet offers an opportunity to do this like never before, but we need help in getting the message across and raising funds.