The deteriorating human rights situation in Mali requires more trained local human rights experts. These professionals have to be capable of drafting legal documents on human rights violations based on international conventions and corresponding national jurisdictions. To help human rights practitioners understand the relationship between the national Malian jurisdiction and international criminal law, the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (FNF) West Africa and the Malian National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) provided training to select human rights practitioners in a three-day workshop in Bamako. The 35 participants were all professional lawyers, most of them defense attorneys with a human rights background, working in close cooperation with the CNDH. Special attention was given to the prosecution of human rights violations that may be instituted exclusively within the international juridical framework.