Legal aid and referral · legal-aid app

Get legal help, or give evidence safely

Runs India's document clinics and tribunal and eviction cases, gives emergency lawyer referrals for Uyghurs and Rohingya facing deportation, and refers survivors to the UN mechanisms and trusted documentation groups. It runs no witness line of its own and keeps its data minimal and encrypted.

Before you start

  • We do not take your story. This site runs no witness line and asks for nothing about you. Contact the services below directly.
  • Facing deportation now? Go to the services marked Takes emergency calls — and contact UNHCR in the country you are in.
  • Giving evidence? Use the UN mechanisms' own secure channels, from a device and account that are safe for you.
  • In immediate danger, call your local emergency number first.
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Emergency lawyers for Uyghurs and Rohingya facing deportation

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India: document clinics, tribunal and eviction cases

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Survivors: UN mechanisms and trusted documentation groups

  • Occupied Palestinian Territory (Gaza)

    Al Mezan Center for Human Rights

    Independent Gaza-based human rights organisation that gives legal help and advocacy support to Palestinian victims.

    Contact: Phone +970 (08) 2820442/7. Email info@mezan.org. Al Mena – Omar El Mukhtar Street, Gaza Strip

    Email or call. The website also has a complaints page.

    PalestineAl Mezan Center for Human Rights (mezan.org)

  • Occupied Palestinian Territory

    Al-Haq

    Palestinian human rights organisation, active since 1979, that documents and monitors violations and works on accountability before international courts.

    Contact: Phone +970 22954646. 54 Main Street, 2nd Floor, Protestant Hall Building, Ramallah (email listed on the contact page)

    Call the Ramallah office to reach its field documentation staff.

    PalestineAl-Haq – Contact Us (alhaq.org)

  • Worldwide

    International Criminal Court – Office of the Prosecutor OTPLink

    Secure portal run by the ICC Office of the Prosecutor for confidential submissions of information. It uses encryption to protect both the information and the identity of the person sending it.

    Contact: https://otplink.icc-cpi.int/

    Use an up-to-date operating system and browser (Chrome, Firefox or Edge). Older systems are blocked. If it fails, try another device or network.

    PalestineSudanMyanmarOTPLink – ICC Office of the Prosecutor (otplink.icc-cpi.int)

  • Occupied Palestinian Territory (Gaza)

    Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR)

    Independent Palestinian human rights organisation based in Gaza, with a temporary office in Deir al-Balah.

    Contact: Email info@pchrgaza.org or pchr@pchrgaza.org. Phone +972 82823725. Temporary office: Tawfiq Abu Asad Building, 2nd Floor, Baghdad St (Abu Asad St), Deir Albalah, Tel/Fax 1800150151

    Email or call, or go to the temporary office in Deir al-Balah.

    PalestinePCHR – Contact Us (pchrgaza.org)

  • Worldwide

    UN Special Procedures – online submission form (OHCHR)

    The UN human rights office's online form for reporting alleged human rights violations to the Special Procedures (independent experts) of the Human Rights Council. Any individual, group, civil-society organisation, inter-governmental body or national human rights body can submit.

    Contact: Online form: https://spsubmission.ohchr.org/ ; by post: OHCHR-UNOG, 8-14 Avenue de la Paix, 1211 Geneve 10, Switzerland. The page gives no email address.

    Victims' names are normally included in letters sent to governments unless there are security concerns. They are also published in public Human Rights Council reports, except for children and survivors of sexual violence. Say clearly in your submission whether you agree to the victim's name being shown in letters and reports.

    PalestineSudanMyanmarThe UyghursIndia's MuslimsSpecial Procedures Submission Form (spsubmission.ohchr.org)

For paralegals, lawyers and mosque help desks

The Justice Council adopts an existing legal-aid app rather than building its own, and runs it through India's document clinics and mosque help desks. Its data stays minimal and encrypted. The work it serves in the plan:

  • Months 1-3 · Ummah Relief and Reconstruction Waqf Trust

    Draft the Waqf Trust's deed, trustee rules, sharia board terms, audit and sanctions-compliance manual. Include one ring-fenced, unconditional Palestine fund that is kept beyond any single state's reach by lawful means only, and the specification for a giving app that never holds funds.

    PalestineSudanMyanmarThe UyghursIndia's Muslims

  • Months 1-3 · Uyghur diaspora and documentation groups

    Press Canada's immigration ministry to fill its 10,000-place Uyghur resettlement pledge before the end-2026 deadline, and other host states' interior ministries to make non-refoulement of Uyghurs binding. Offer zakat-funded community sponsorship through the Trust.

    The Uyghurs

  • Months 1-3 · Indian legal aid services and local authorities

    Build the India module of the legal-aid app and a document-clinic guide for mosque help desks. It covers name corrections, roll-revision appeals, Foreigners Tribunal hearings and eviction challenges under the Supreme Court's November 2025 and February 2026 rulings, with priority for women and the poor.

    India's Muslims

  • Months 4-6 · Indian legal aid services and local authorities

    Back families with legal-aid lawyers to file contempt petitions against evictions carried out on a day's notice or without review, and habeas corpus petitions for Kashmiris held after Pahalgam. The Supreme Court has already ruled against punitive demolitions; the captured India–Bangladesh border talks are not used.

    India's Muslims

  • Months 7-9 · Indian legal aid services and local authorities

    Analyse the West Bengal special intensive revision deletions by district and community, and Assam's evictions and holding-centre detentions. Turn the analysis into court filings and submissions to the National Human Rights Commission and the UN special rapporteurs, in place of the captured border talks.

    India's Muslims

  • Months 10-12 · Rohingya representative and survivor bodies

    Ask Bangladesh and Malaysia to keep return voluntary and refuse any link between repatriation and dropping the ICJ case. Malaysia should halt its approved deportations and give UNHCR access to detention, and both should open lawful work for Rohingya, backed by the Trust's camp funding, and accept a representative body chosen through consultation in the camps.

    Myanmar

  • Months 10-12 · Indian legal aid services and local authorities

    Using the legal-aid files, ask the National Human Rights Commission to open inquiries into Assam's holding centres and evictions and into the Altaf Lali killing, and ask the Election Commission to restore wrongly deleted names before the next election. The Union government and the captured border talks are not the route.

    India's Muslims

Working by month 4. Used by: Paralegals, legal aid lawyers, mosque help desks and families at risk. Serves: Indian legal aid services and local authorities, Uyghur documentation groups (Uyghur Rights Monitor, Uyghur Hjelp), Rohingya women's groups (Women's Peace Network, Refugee Women for Peace and Justice), Indian courts and National Human Rights Commission.

Legal aid and referrals — Justice Council