Rights made enforceable

Access to justice and effective remedies

GJK supports survivors to understand their options and pursue appropriate judicial and non-judicial remedies, including compensation, restitution, rehabilitation, legal recognition, satisfaction and guarantees of non-repetition.

Cost is often a decisive barrier: legal representation, evidence collection, expert analysis, translation and cross-border coordination require sustained resources. Where safe return is required, GJK rigorously coordinates repatriation between rights holders and duty bearers and works with recruitment agencies and employers so responsible actors meet return costs wherever possible. GJK does not make payments that reward abusive intermediaries or channel funds back into trafficking networks.

GJK and university partners during an inclusive community visit with a wheelchair user and family members — Inclusive community engagement and institutional partnership help identify practical barriers to rights and effective remedies.

Programme priorities

How this work advances justice.

The programme is designed around enforceability: helping rights holders identify a viable pathway, build the evidence it requires and pursue a remedy that responds to the harm experienced.

Understand the options

Provide clear, survivor-centred legal information so rights holders can make informed decisions about judicial and non-judicial pathways.

Build viable cases

Connect documentation, legal research, expert input, translation and cross-border coordination to the requirements of each remedy.

Secure safe, accountable return

Coordinate repatriation with rights holders and duty bearers, seek return-cost commitments from responsible agencies and employers, and connect safe return to evidence preservation, recovery and continuing remedies.

Repatriation in practice

Safe return requires coordination, dignity and accountability.

The photographs below show moments of arrival and reconnection. They illustrate one visible stage of work that also includes preparation, cross-border coordination, safeguarding, documentation, referrals and follow-up on continuing remedies.

Two people embracing beside a delivery vehicle following an arrival — Carefully coordinated return should protect dignity and make space for reconnection on arrival.

Three people standing together in an outdoor airport area — Repatriation depends on communication among rights holders, institutions and other responsible actors.

Two women sharing a supportive moment outside an airport terminal — Arrival is one stage in a wider process that should preserve options and connect people to continuing support.

Two people embracing, one carrying a backpack — Reconnection can mark the beginning of recovery, informed next steps and continued pursuit of remedies.

These photographs do not identify anyone depicted as a survivor or disclose personal circumstances.

A connected justice model

No programme works in isolation.

GJK links individual support and enforceable remedies with evidence, institutional learning and long-term reform.

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