Programs 

Conectas develops its activities through two programs that interact together and encompass national, regional and international activities. The individual projects of each program aim to strengthen human rights defenders and academics in the Global South and to foster interaction between them, through collaborative networks. In Brazil, Conectas promotes strategic and public interest litigation.

2008 International Human Rights Colloquium participants

The GLOBAL SOUTH PROGRAM aims to increase the impact of the work of human rights defenders, academics and organizations from the Global South (Africa, Asia and Latin America). It therefore develops education, research, networking and advocacy activities. The program also aims to facilitate access by Global South activists to the mechanisms of the United Nations (UN) and regional human rights systems.

The Global South Program consists of the following projects:
• International Human Rights Colloquium
• Human Rights Fellowship for Lusophone Africa
• Sur – International Journal on Human Rights
• Foreign Policy and Human Rights

The JUSTICE PROGRAM works nationally, regionally and internationally to protect human rights and to promote access to justice for vulnerable groups who are victims of human rights violations in Brazil. It therefore develops strategic litigation and participates in the constitutional debate, particularly in the Supreme Federal Court. In doing so, it aims to destabilize human rights violations and hold the perpetrators accountable, in addition to causing political embarrassment and fostering public debate.

The Justice Program consists of the following projects:
• Strategic Litigation: prision and socieducational systems
• Supreme Court: participation in the constitutional debate
• Right to Health and Access to Medicines