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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.
Hundreds Forcibly Disappeared to El Salvadoran Mega-Prison
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
Ceesay v. Kurzdorfer: Defending Due Process at ICE Check-ins
Fulton v. Noem: Ensuring access to medical care upon release from ICE detention
RFK Human Rights v. Department of Homeland Security: Ensuring oversight of immigration enforcement
Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights v. DHS: Fighting Mass Surveillance
Prisoners’ Legal Services v. Department of Homeland Security: 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
Nersisian v Harper: Fighting disability discrimination in immigration detention
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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