Avocats Sans Frontières


Avocats Sans Frontières, also known in Dutch as Advocaten Zonder Grenzen, is an international NGO active in the human rights and development sector. Created in 1992 by a group of Belgian lawyers, ASF's main objective is to advocate for institutions and mechanisms that facilitate access to independent and fair justice systems that ensure legal security and guarantee fundamental human rights.
Avocats Sans Frontières has no affiliation with Lawyers Without Borders, and does not use an English name.
WWW asf.be

Awards

In 2007, ASF was granted the CCBE Human Rights Award by the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe.
In 2009, ASF won the Law and Sustainability Prize of the Association of Flemish Jurists.