Just Futures Collaborative is a feminist initiative cultivating global cross-movement strategies for challenging criminalization, promoting human rights, and protecting democracy. We bring together people and groups that are challenging criminalization and experimenting with approaches that address harm with humanity. We ignite collaboration, collective imagination, and power for just futures and counter highly coordinated anti-gender, anti-democracy actors.

Our Mission:

To create a resilient, feminist, transnational community of individual and organizational advocates who challenge criminalization. Together, we create and strengthen analytical links between different forms of harm, and advocate for safer, more sustainable solutions to rights violations.

Our Vision:

We envision a world free from the degradation of criminalization, where harm is addressed through engaged social processes to ensure justice, wellbeing, security, human rights, democracy and peace for all.

ABOUT US

“This penchant for violent forms of punishment is a result of us as societies being wedded to the punitive and carceral approach to dealing with issues that require community-based, social responses. Our responses should address the root causes of discrimination, marginalisation and rights-violations faced by particular communities - which are the very reasons these communities are more likely to be arrested and incarcerated. The state and (most of) society believe that locking someone up and throwing away the key solves the issue, but it only compounds it.”

Ambika Satkunanathan, JFC Steering Committee member, Feminist Human Rights Lawyer and Advocate

LATEST NEWS

Thematic Dialogue on Gender-based Violence, convened by Just Futures Collaborative, the Association for Progressive Communications (APC), COFEM, and Realizing Sexual and the Reproductive Justice Alliance (RESURJ) between February and April 2026, has resulted in two resources capturing key discussion points and reflections from the conversations.

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From Cockroaches to Criminals: How the Indian State Turned Protest into a Crime. A satirical movement sparked by a judge's insult toppled an Education Minister and exposed India's machinery of surveillance and criminalization against dissent. By Aarushi Mahajan.

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Justice beyond Jails is a global campaign that calls attention to how much we rely on policing and incarceration to address gender-based violence (GBV).

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