The Human Right of Free Access to Law Advocacy (HURIFALA) is a proposed international non-governmental organisation (NGO) or foundation, to be based in The Netherlands whose city—The Hague—Boutros Boutros-Ghali (a former United Nations Secretary-General) first rightly called the “legal capital of the world”.
The origin of HURIFALA is traced to 20 December 2019 when the website of the Human Right of Free Access to Public Legal Information Advocacy (later renamed and shortened as the Human Right of Free Access to Law) was unveiled by Prof. Dr. Ernst Hirsch Ballin, Emeritus Distinguished University Professor, during an academic event at Tilburg University in The Netherlands.
HURIFALA actively advocates and promotes the universal recognition of the right of free access to all categories of law (public legal information) as a new substantive human right. Those categories include all laws that are enacted by all tiers of government; all decisions and judgments of all national (state) courts; all law-related government-held documents; all rules of indigenous customary law; and all regional and international legal treaties, legal instruments, and judicial decisions. HURIFALA is now in the process of being formally incorporated as a not-for-profit foundation in The Netherlands.
Dr. Leesi Ebenezer Mitee (whose multidisciplinary doctoral degree focused on international human rights law and the concept of free access to law, legal information technology (aspects of legal informatics), indigenous customary law and indigenous rights) is the proposed Executive Director (President) of HURIFALA. He is the pioneer global advocate of the universal recognition of the right of free access to law (public legal information) as a new substantive (stand-alone) human right.