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.

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 completed ANBI form can be viewed here
• The current policy plan of the foundation can be consulted here

Governance

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

PILP has a Supervisory Board and statutory board. The board consists of the chairman Mr. J. Klaas, the secretary Mrs. M.B. Hendrickx, the treasurer Mrs. L. Wennekes and the general board member Mrs. R. Beets. The board is responsible for the daily management of the foundation.

The composition of the Supervisory Board is as follows:

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

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

Advisory Board

PILP is advised, solicited and unsolicited, by an Advisory Board consisting of prominent experts from various disciplines: academia, the legal profession, civil society and journalism. The common denominator of the council members is their proven knowledge of and commitment to human rights in the Netherlands.

Composition Advisory Council

• Prof. 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.

A maximum of nine persons participate in the Advisory Board and is composed by the Dutch Legal Committee for Human Rights (NJCM), the initiator of PILP.

Role Advisory Board

The Advisors form the sounding board group for PILP. Their main role is to help PILP staff to make informed choices when selecting issues that will be taken up under the banner of PILP, the so-called selected issues. In addition to this essential role in the decision-making process, the Advisors are also free to give unsolicited advice on all other issues that (may) affect the project. They participate in the Advisory Board in a personal capacity.

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;

Outline Policy Plan:

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.

Annual Reports

PILP was established in December 2022. Accounting for the year 2022 was nil, see also this statement.

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.

Organizations

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.