Human Rights Impacts Assessments (HRIAs) and preliminary risk screenings. Analysis/advice on human rights obligations. Design and implementation of Environmental and Social Safeguards Frameworks, mitigation strategies, and monitoring systems. Facilitation of rightsholder engagement and rightsholder-led HRIAs. Rights-based advocacy and strategic planning.

Design and implementation of Free Prior & Informed Consent (FPIC) processes, alongside community partners. Advice to communities on benefit-sharing agreements, consent agreements, monitoring plans, and other process outputs. Assistance understanding and implementing UNDRIP rights.

Facilitation of trust- and support-based human rights work within and between orgs, using custom tools and approaches.

Design of Grievance and Remedy Mechanisms (GRMs), as well as deeper dialogue and mediation work to unlock the information and relationship-building values of conflict.

Human rights analysis of technology-driven programs and related impacts. Integration of human rights in design, testing, scaling, and launch/post-launch stages of technology products and developments. Academic and policy work with technologists and communities, emphasizing participation and transparency rights and benefits.

Work with Indigenous Peoples on realizing their rights to self-determination of their culture, knowledge, history, identity, and linked resources and data. Academic and policy work on data sovereignty. i.e. new frameworks for data rights and responsibilities in the context of self-determination.

Integration of human rights and “just transition” equity into climate finance mechanisms, including the Voluntary Carbon Market (VCM), development finance projects, org activities, and community advocacy and action plans.

Design and facilitation of public fact-finding processes. Independent reviews and internal investigations. Interviewing, evidence collection, documentation, analysis, and compelling report-writing. Crisis communications and media liaison work when appropriate.

Select representation of human rights defenders facing assaults, criminal charges, retaliatory lawsuits, and other harassment and intimidation triggered by their advocacy. Assistance to organizations concerning their bystander obligations. Assistance drawing attention to this important issue.

Strategic counseling and select representation on complex issues of international law, provided to communities and organizations in line with our mission to promote a more equitable and inclusive international legal discourse.