Strategic Litigation: a Contribution to Legal Development or a Strategy with No Added Value?

A common mission for most human rights, environmental, and whatnot NGOs is making an impact at individual, societal, and/or global level. Most human rights NGOs work because they want to see a change happen. Work of every credible and professional organization requires clearly formulated goals and effective strategies to reach these goals. Each organization chooses strategies that best suit its goals, capacities, and expertise. Well, so far no news. So instead of discussing countless different strategies to make the world a better place, I decided to write only about one that in my opinion deserves more attention as one form of human rights advocacy: strategic litigation.