Strategic litigation is a powerful complement to advocacy, policy work, and awareness-raising. By bringing carefully selected cases before courts, it seeks not only to secure justice for individuals, but also to challenge discriminatory practices, influence legal interpretation, strengthen rights protection, and drive broader social and policy change.

 

Despite its potential, strategic litigation remains underused by organisations working on older people’s rights, often due to limited knowledge, experience or resources. StratAGEic aims to equipe older people and their organizations to explore strategic litigation to defend human rights in old age.

 

This resource compilation introduces strategic litigation, its potential and the ways it can transform individual cases into opportunities for lasting legal and social change