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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.
RFK Human Rights v. Noem: Fighting for Accountability in Immigration Enforcement
Nersisian v Harper: Fighting Disability Discrimination in Immigration Detention
Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights v. DHS: Fighting Mass Surveillance
PLS v. DHS: Protecting the First Amendment and Attorney-Client Privilege in ICE Detention
Barnes v. Felix: Limiting Deadly Police Force
Franklin v. New York: Protecting the Integrity of Bail
Hodge v. Brophy: Fighting Indefinite Civil Detention
Manuel Esteban Paez Teran v. United States: Justice for murder of environmental activist
Justice for Migrant Families v. Immigration and Customs Enforcement: Exposing Abuse at the Buffalo Federal Processing Center
K.N.N. et al v. United States of America: Stopping Torture on Deportation Flights
J.K.A. v. United States of America: Stopping Retaliation for Protesting Detention Center Abuses
Indigenous women victims of sexual violence, tortured by Mexican Army
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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