Partner
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Foundation for Press Freedom (FLIP)
Our collaboration reactivated the case of Guillermo Cano, a Colombian journalist brutally murdered by Pablo Escobar’s hit men, to secure reparations and nonrepetition measures from the state of Colombia.
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Somali Journalists Syndicate
We filed a joint petition to the U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention to secure Mohamed “Abuuja” Abdiwahab Nuur’s release after he was arbitrarily detained for months, enduring torture and being denied access to legal counsel and his family, for publishing an editorial criticizing Somali security forces.
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Foro Penal
After opposition-linked Venezuelan Maury Carrero was arbitrarily detained and searched without a warrant by Venezuelan intelligence agents, we partnered to file a petition before the IACHR. She was unconditionally released in September 2020.
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Sexual Minorities Uganda
We partnered to file a petition before the U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention on behalf of 19 LGBTQ+ Ugandans, who were arrested and detained after authorities falsely claimed they were violating COVID-19 stay-at-home orders.
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Defiende Venezuela
We collaborated to file a petition to the U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention calling for the release of José Vicente García Ramírez, a leader of the opposition Venezuelan political party.
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Red Lésbica Cattrachas
We partnered to combat gender-based violence and to advance LGBTQ+ rights in Honduras. Our work together includes the 2015 case Leonela Zelaya v. Honduras and, more recently, Vicky Hernandez et al. v. Honduras.
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Cubalex
With Cubalex, an organization that offers free legal advice to Cubans, we filed a joint petition before the IACHR to hold Cuba responsible for violating the organization’s rights.
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Office of the Human Rights Ombudsperson of Guatemala
We teamed up to file a petition before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to seek precautionary measures to protect Guatemalan mining activist Quelvin Otoniel Jiménez Villalta.
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Council for Global Equality
Together, we sued the Trump administration for creating and operating the State Department’s Commission on Unalienable Rights in violation of the Federal Advisory Committee Act.
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Movimiento Sociocultural Para Los Trabajadores Haitianos (MOSCTHA)
We’ve partnered on litigation to combat the Dominican Republic’s xenophobic and discriminatory policies toward Dominicans of Haitian descent, including the cases of Juliana Deguis Pierre et al. v. Dominican Republic and precautionary measures on behalf of Luisa Fransua, Rafael Toussaint, Juliana Deguis Pierre, and others v. Dominican Republic.
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Columbia Law School
We joined forces to litigate the domestic violence case of Jessica Lenahan (Gonzales) v. United States, which prompted the IACHR to recommend strengthening U.S. domestic violence law.
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Maritimes-Guatemala Breaking the Silence Network
We teamed up to file a petition before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights seeking precautionary measures to protect Guatemalan mining activist Quelvin Otoniel Jiménez Villalta.
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