Over a billion Indians qualify for free legal aid.
Yet, for 95% of them, it remains inaccessible.
For millions of people, justice exists merely on paper, not in practice.
Migrant workers, displaced persons, and low-income communities are routinely denied the rights and protections the law guarantees them. Where poverty, displacement, and gender intersect, the barriers to justice run deepest.
Women and girls are excluded first, and reached last. Without access to justice, entire communities stay trapped in cycles of exploitation, abuse, and exclusion.
This is the gap MAP seeks to address.
Margins to Access Project (MAP), formerly known as the Migration and Asylum Project, is a legal aid centre committed to facilitating access to justice through systemic and sustainable change.
Working at the intersection of migration, gender, and justice, we operate from the grassroots to the highest institutions to decentralise and democratise the justice system.
We recognise that overlapping forms of marginalisation demand more than a one-size-fits-all approach to justice, and are deeply committed to addressing the devastating impact of poverty, migration and displacement on communities, particularly women and girls.
Our Impact
MAP's annual flagship justice convening 'Nyaay Sabha' has, over the years, evolved as a space bringing together influential voices from the justice ecosystem to reimagine what 'last-mile justice' could truly mean.
The 2026 event saw the unprecedented coming together of 260 diverse actors: members of the Bar and Bench, civil society organisations, academia, students, philanthropists, and institutional actors from the National Legal Services Authority and the Department of Justice, each bringing a distinct perspective to a conversation about legal aid that has, for too long, remained siloed.
