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Students gathered in Bechtel International Center last night to commemorate women’s struggles in the name of International Women’s Day, which is March 8. The event featured three keynote speakers who spoke about their shared pursuit of justice for torture and human rights abuses against Salvadorean civilians.

Article on CJA client Zita Cabello-Barrueto’s long struggle to achieve justice for her brother’s killing.

A San Francisco nonprofit that has successfully sued foreign military leaders for crimes against humanity has again filed suit, this time against a former Salvadoran military commander the group says is responsible for torture and assassinations during the early years of El Salvador’s civil war…

An unassuming great-grandfather who has been living uneventfully in Memphis was accused Wednesday of overseeing military squads who killed thousands of El Salvadorans more than two decades ago…

Article on the $4 million judgment against former Chilean military official Armando Fernandez Larios in a case brought by CJA.

Article on the trial and successful judgment against CJA defendant and former Chilean military officer Armando Fernandez Larios for the killing of Winston Cabello.

A San Francisco-based human rights group filed a landmark lawsuit yesterday in the case of slain Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero, accusing a former Salvadoran Air Force officer of involvement in the 1980 assassination of the revered Roman Catholic leader…

A Modesto resident was accused in a lawsuit Tuesday of playing a key role in the 1980 assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero, an outspoken critic of human rights abuses in El Salvador…

We take a look at the case of a torture-victim from El Salvador who confronted two former Salvadoran generals living in the U.S. He won a watershed victory last summer when a jury ruled that the two generals held “command responsibility” over abuses by the military.