Litigation has unlocked a major barrier—we have used reports, a film documentary, lobbying, we threw everything at the problems—but the importance of litigation is that the government is forced to respond. They must come to court and provide information that otherwise you cannot get —and that information informs our other advocacy. -- Yussuf Bashir, Haki na Sheria, Kenya These are deep-seated problems. Exclusion is not created by lack of knowledge of the problems by the authorities, but a way of thinking that is ingrained, and that is very difficult to change by awareness-raising or general advocacy. The most powerful tool is the judiciary, and the court room is the only place where we are equal. We are involved in all sorts of other advocacy, but the only tangible glimpse of impact is in the courts. -- Valeria Ilareva, Foundation for Access to Rights, Bulgaria 6 U N H C R | L I T I G AT I N G T H E R I G H T T O A N AT I O N A L I T Y: A G U I D E F O R P R AC T I T I O N E R S