Our Impact
We make law.
CJA has developed key legal doctrine that sets standards for international human rights prosecutions.
We uphold truth & dignity.
“Survivors of torture around the world will not be silenced. With the help of CJA we are rising up to hold our abusers accountable.” – Nobel Prize winner and CJA client Rigoberta Menchú Tum.
We win cases.
CJA has won favorable verdicts in every case that has gone to trial.
News
Gambia: US Charges Alleged ‘Death Squad’ Member with Torture
- June 12, 2020
Correa Indictment is Major Advance for Victims of Abuses during Jammeh Rule (Banjul, June 12, 2020) – The indictment in the United States on June 11, 2020 of an alleged former Gambian “death squad” member on torture charges is an important step for Ga
COALITION LETTER — REQUEST FOR U.N. INDEPENDENT INQUIRY INTO ESCALATING SITUATION OF POLICE VIOLENCE AND REPRESSION OF PROTESTS IN THE UNITED STATES
- June 11, 2020
June 8, 2020 To Members of the United Nations Human Rights Council Re: Request for the Convening of a Special Session on the Escalating Situation of Police Violence and Repression of Protests in the United States Excellencies, The undersigned family me
CJA joins the Coalition for the ICC and over one hundred civil society organizations calling on the States Parties to the Rome Statute to reaffirm their support for the Court and the Rome Statute system, especially in face of recent threats to its independence and mandate from the US government.
- April 30, 2020
New York, 28 April 2020 Your Excellency, We, the undersigned organizations, call on your State and all States Parties to the Rome Statute to show support for the Rome Statute system and the International Criminal Court (ICC), especially in the face of
When I testified, a strength came over me. I felt like I was in the prow of a boat and that there were many, many people rowing behind – that they were moving me into this moment. …. Being involved in this case, confronting the Generals with these terrible facts – that’s the best possible therapy a torture survivor could have.