About the International Refugee Rights Initiative (IRRI)
Since its inception in 2004, the International Refugee Rights Initiative has been dedicated to addressing human rights in conflict and displacement in Africa. We seek to enhance the protection of vulnerable populations, particularly the displaced, before, during and after conflict. We ground our advocacy in the rights accorded in regional and international human rights instruments and strive to make these guarantees effective at the local level.
IRRI aims to contribute to the improvement and creation of models of law and practice which best guarantee human rights in conflict and displacement. We engage in legal and field-based research in order to better understand how policy affects conflict affected communities and we bring our findings to the attention of policy makers in national, regional and international debates.
IRRI strives to amplify the voices of conflict affected communities, and to that effect works with networks of advocates across the African continent to identify the key challenges facing vulnerable communities and collaborates with those advocates to advance appropriate changes in law, policy and practice, as well as advocate for regional action where necessary. Our dual bases in Kampala and New York uniquely position us to act as a bridge between these local advocates and the international community, enabling local knowledge to infuse international developments and helping local advocates integrate the implications of regional and international policy in their work at home.
The International Refugee Rights Initiative is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, non-governmental organisation based and registered in Kampala, Uganda and in New York, the United States.