The Partners in Justice International legal team has decades of combined experience prosecuting perpetrators and representing victims and survivors of human rights violations and international atrocity crimes in litigation. The legal team has litigated human rights cases in U.S. courts, the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL), and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), and has assisted local practitioners in international crimes investigations and prosecutions around the world, including in Chile, Colombia, Guatemala, Kenya, Kosovo, the Philippines, South Korea, Tunisia, and Ukraine.
Max and Kathy came to this work by different paths. Max was a war crimes prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, and she was an investigator at the Special Court for Sierra Leone. Kathy was Legal Director at the Center for Justice and Accountability, a victim lawyer investigating and trying atrocity crimes cases in the courts of third countries (usually the United States). Both saw the need for victims to see justice where they live. Both heard the call of local justice practitioners seeking support to make that happen. They founded PJI to respond to this call.
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Special Thanks to Our Strategic Partners
The PJI Team is grateful to all of the partners, institutions and individuals who help make our work possible. Their efforts help to uplift those who seek justice within their communities, giving survivors hope that they will – at last – find justice at home.
PJI is a proud grantee of the Sigrid Rausing Trust.
PJI is honoured to be an implementing partner of UN Women (Kenya, Guatemala, Kosovo, Confidential Locations).
PJI is honoured to be an implementing partner of the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (Kenya).
PJI is proud to be a grantee of the Open Society Justice Initiative
PJI’s work in Kenya is financed by the Government of Italy through the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation and by OHCHR.
PJI’s work on North Korea was implemented in warm partnership with Citizens Alliance for North Korean Human Rights.
PJI’s work on Ukraine was carried out through an inspiring partnership with Global Initiative for Justice Truth & Reconciliation (GIJTR).
Continuing support for Ukraine was funded by International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR).
PJI is also grateful for the generosity and partnership of EUROJUST, the Institute for International Criminal Investigations, the Asia Foundation, Freedom House, and the International Truth and Justice Project.
And to Partners Like You!
Our work would not be possible without the generous donations from our devoted PJI family, individuals who walk the path of justice with us every step of the way. Please find individual acknowledgements in our 2024 Annual Report.
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