The South cannot be contained by national borders.

“The South” cannot be contained by national borders. The U.S. South is “marked by polylingual, transnational, and economic connections to a 'global South' running from Southeast Asia to Africa to Latin America. None of this is new.”

— Professor Mark Guterl

The Internationalist Law Center is building a movement that uses litigation, policy advocacy, and community organizing to create accountability for illegal government investments that defund and displace communities in the U.S. South and facilitate human rights violations in the Global South.

Our public-finance accountability work ensures that funds are returned to divested communities, U.S South and Global South communities build their socio-economic power, and that solidarity is enhanced between communities in the U.S. South and Global South.