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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.
People v. Franklin: Protecting the Integrity of Bail
Seeking justice after murder of environmental activist
United States Abuses Cameroonian Asylum Seekers Before Deporting Them Back To Persecutors
United States Inflicts Egregious Physical Abuse On Asylum Seekers During Deportation Flights
Indigenous women victims of sexual violence, tortured by Mexican Army
Justice Achieved in Cuban Dissident’s Death
New York’s Largest Immigrant Detention Center Inflicts Abuse In Secret
Anti-Haitian Discrimination Taints The U.S. Immigration System
United States Holds Thousands In Prolonged Civil Detention Without The Chance To Ask A Judge For Freedom
Renowned investigative journalist persecuted for exposing corruption and collusion in Brazil’s judicial system
United States Inflicts Cruel And Degrading Treatment On Transgender People In Immigration Detention
Racial and Gender Discrimination In U.S. Citizenship Law Leaves Thousands at Risk of Deportation
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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