To promote awareness, protection and enforcement of human rights through capacity building training, advocacy and litigation (both at the domestic and extra-domestic level).
To strengthen the capacity of lawyers and human rights advocates through tailor made trainings.
To strengthen laws, policies and institutional frameworks through proactive monitoring, research and advocacy.
To strive for the implementation of international human rights norms enshrined in important regional and international human rights instruments.
To facilitate unimpeded access to and administration of justice by making high quality and free legal service available to victims of human rights violations.
To fight against t impunity by ensuring perpetrators of human rights violation are held to account.
To work with regional and international human rights groups that have an interest in enhancing the protection of human rights in Ethiopia.