Our organization

ANBI

The PILP Foundation has been classified by the tax authorities as an Institution for General Benefit (ANBI). As a result, your donation to PILP is tax deductible under certain conditions.

If you are considering making a one-time or recurring donation to PILP, please contact Laura Wennekes at contact@pilp.nu if you have any questions. You can also make a donation directly through our website, transfer an amount through the bank or fill out the recurring donation form.

General information:

• PILP Foundation (PILP) provides legal advice and conducts strategic legal proceedings for human rights in the Netherlands.
• PILP’s office is located at Keizersgracht 177, 1016 DR in Amsterdam.
• PILP can be reached via telephone number: +31(0)20 261 0191 and via e-mail address: contact@pilp.nu.
• PILP is registered with the Chamber of Commerce under number 88508536.
• The RSIN number of PILP is 864659246.
• The bank account number of PILP is NL 75 INGB 0104 0931 53 in the name of Stichting PILP.
• The current policy plan of the foundation can be consulted here
• The annual report, including annual accounts, for 2023 can be consulted here
• The completed ANBI form for 2023 can be consulted here
• The form for periodic gifts can be consulted here

Board of directors

PILP has a statutory board and supervisory board. The board consists of:

• Mr. mr. J. Klaas, chairman
• Mr. M.B. Hendrickx, secretary
• Mr. L. Wennekes, treasurer
• Ms. R. Beets, general board member

The board is responsible for the daily management of the foundation.

Supervisory Board

Name	Appointed per	Resigning by	Reappointable*
Mevr. mr. Berna Keskindemir	15 december 2022	15 december 2026	yes
Dhr. mr. Abraham Cornelis Maria Vos	15 december 2022	15 december 2025	yes
Mevr. prof. dr. Ashley Béatrice Terlouw	15 december 2022	15 december 2024	yes
Dhr. mr. Wolfgang Sakulin	14 december 2023	14 december 2027	yes

*Reappointable for a second term of up to four years.

Advisors

PILP receives advice from a group of committed experts. Affiliated advisors are currently:

• Prof. mr. Tom Barkhuysen, Leiden University, Stibbe
• Folkert Jensma, NRC Handelsblad
• Eva Rieter, Senior Researcher & Assistant Professor of International Human Rights Law and Public International Law, Radboud University Nijmegen.
• Herman Veerbeek, former NJCM board member
• Prof. Barbara Oomen, Professor in the Sociology of Human Rights, University College Roosevelt (Utrecht University)
• Marloes van Noorloos, Associate Professor, Tilburg Law School, Department of Criminal Law
• Mohamed Rafik, criminal lawyer, Korvinus Zandt Bruinsma Rafik Lawyers.

Role of advisors

The advisors form a sounding board group for PILP. Their main role is to help PILP staff make informed choices when selecting cases. In addition to this essential role in the decision-making process, the advisors are also free to give unsolicited advice on any other issues that (may) affect PILP on current cases. They give advice in a personal capacity.

Annual Reports

2022: Accounting for the year 2022 was nil
2023: Annual report, including financial statements

Policy Plan

Objective:

PILP aims to:

• To advise on and support and conduct strategic litigation and legal proceedings in particular on human rights issues in the Netherlands or related to Dutch foreign policy;
• To be the legal ally of non-governmental organizations, advocacy organizations, communities, activists, lawyers and academics working for human rights, the rule of law and a better, fairer world;

Highlights:

The PILP Foundation (hereinafter PILP) advocates for the progressive realization and protection of human rights and the rule of law in the Netherlands and in the Dutch legal sphere. PILP does this through strategic litigation.

Strategic litigation, according to PILP, sees advising on all legal issues from which legal proceedings might follow. It also sees preparing, supporting and conducting legal proceedings, including lawsuits, complaints before national and international judges, institutions and commissions.

PILP’s goal is to be the legal ally of NGOs, advocacy organizations, movements, communities, activists, lawyers and academics working for human rights, the rule of law and a better, fairer world. These actors, according to PILP, should play a leading role in all matters concerning them and their causes and campaigns. PILP propagates that law, litigation and procedures should only be deployed if it is strategic and could strengthen the campaigns and goals, of those for whom it is deployed. This practice is also known as movement lawyering.

At the same time, PILP ensures that all lawsuits and procedures make legal sense and are technically and procedurally correct. PILP is also a law firm that operates fully within the rules and laws (of conduct) applicable to the legal profession.

Compensation policy

Board members do not receive any remuneration for their administrative activities. They are only entitled to an expense allowance.

The members of the supervisory board receive no remuneration for their supervisory activities. They are only entitled to an expense allowance.

Employees are remunerated according to the salary scales of the CAO Legal Aid. Each position is linked to a scale. Employees are placed on an appropriate step depending on their relevant work experience. Each year, if the financial situation of PILP allows it, they move up one step in scale.

Financial Policy:

The Supervisory Board is responsible for managing the foundation’s assets in outline. It has approval rights on the annual and quarterly budgets. The board is also responsible for the day-to-day management of the foundation’s assets at the detailed level and may act within the framework of the approved budget.

Funding comes largely from (large) national and international funds and is supplemented to a small extent by donations from individuals. In addition, much of PILP’s work is only possible through pro bono support from other lawyers (firms), research by academics and students, and other in-kind contributions from allies.

The supervisory board has no influence over substantive choices regarding legal proceedings. These choices, in line with the Regulation on the Legal Profession, are invested exclusively with PILP’s lawyers.

Partners

Funds

PILP is financially supported by the funds listed below. These funds are not at all involved in PILP’s strategic choices, methods of operation, or in the selection and execution of cases and lawsuits.

Organisations

The organizations and companies listed below support PILP as an organization or are or have been involved in one of PILP’s causes.
As such, the organizations and companies listed below do not necessarily support PILP as a whole and/or the individual cases that PILP represents.