PAD Link (people of African descent) aims at empowering PAD communities across the diaspora through a variety of strategies and methods to address the discrimination, prejudice and bias they experience. The organization focuses on addressing the needs of PAD communities through engaging and organizing them to ensure their participation in the necessary actions and processes that combat the historical and inter-generational violation and abrogation of human rights that they experience across the diaspora.
PAD Link creates platforms and programmes that provide various opportunities for these communities. These are
- Strategic litigation
- Advocacy
- Human rights education and capacity building
- Training and mentoring
- Research, monitoring, and publication
- Civic advice initiative
- Diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, trainings, and policy advising
- Intersectional and decolonization initiatives
PAD Link pursues the aim of advocating for the advancement of the human rights of PAD communities and will develop links across the diaspora, thereby creating solidarity among the various PAD communities ensuring sustainability and continuity.