Building a vibrant, global network of new and experienced social justice and movement lawyers
Global convenings aim to facilitate a sense of solidarity and cohort across the Bertha Justice Network, while providing learning opportunities, inspiration and encouragement for Bertha Justice Fellows' long-term engagement in social justice and movement lawyering.
Through our Educational Exchange Fund, we enable Fellows, Alumnx and Partners to convene to discuss legal issues of common interest and to connect in ways that support social justice and movement lawyering.
In September 2017 and October 2014, women lawyers from across the Bertha Justice Network came together at Bertha Justice Partners in the Philippines and Germany, respectively, to share their experiences as women human rights defenders and develop strategies to better support women in the Network. The inaugural meeting of the Women’s Working Group resulted in Unbowed, a collection of letters and poems by women of the Bertha Justice Network.
Bertha Justice Partner, ProDESC, hosted Bertha Justice Fellows and Partner lawyers from seven different countries in Mexico in July 2015, to share legal strategies for defending community rights to land, territory and natural resources against abusive practices of multinational corporations.
In May 2015, lawyers and Bertha Justice Fellows from South Africa's Equal Education Law Centre visited India to participate in a workshop on the "Justiciability of the Right to Education in the post-2015 Development Agenda" and to engage with grassroots organizations on methods for undertaking research, engaging in advocacy work and conducting litigation around the right to education.
