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Strategic Litigation
Women murdered with systematic impunity for their killers. Protesters surveilled and tortured by police. Journalists jailed for speaking truth to power. With authoritarianism on the rise, we collaborate with local partners around the world to confront systematic abuses, often after all else has failed.
Lucero v. United States: Accountability for anti-Latino racism and violence

Pataraia v. Noem: Fighting indefinite detention after winning an immigration case
Savane v. Francis: Stopping the expansion of mandatory detention
RFK Human Rights v. United States Department of Homeland Security: Defending humane and effective alternatives to immigration detention
Kostak v. Trump: Stopping the expansion of mandatory detention
Doe v. Rhoden et al: Stopping sexual abuse in immigration detention
Pourhosseinhendabad v. Trump and Firouzabadi v. Trump: Challenging politically motivated immigration arrests
Hundreds Forcibly Disappeared to El Salvadoran Mega-Prison
Mata Velasquez v. Kurzdorfer: Stopping courthouse arrests of immigrants
RFK Human Rights v. Department of State: Ending the U.S. backroom deal to disappear people to a Salvadoran prison
RFK Human Rights v. Department of Homeland Security: Exposing coercion of unaccompanied children
Monroe v. United States: Dismantling barriers to accountability for police brutality
Our Approach
Our litigation is “strategic” because we bring cases that represent broad and/or structural issues, cases in which successful outcomes create positive change throughout society, in addition to the relief delivered to a single client. With unique global experience before both the Inter-American and African human rights bodies, as well as the United Nations human rights system, we turn to these mechanisms with our partners to protect human rights and achieve justice for entire groups of people, even an entire country or region—often setting new international legal precedent to advance human rights.
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