CJA In The News

On October 21, CJA International Attorney Almudena Bernabeu will be speaking at the 18th United Nations Association Film Festival. Bernabeu will be joining a panel on “The Justice of Reconciliation” at 5:45pm at Stanford University (free admission!). T

On Wednesday, October 21, CJA attorney Scott Gilmore will be speaking at a congressional briefing titled “70 Years After Nuremberg: New Challenges for International Criminal Justice.” Gilmore and other panelists will discuss the international criminal

CJA welcomes language in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), approved by the Senate this week, that establishes that no agency may engage in torture, and all agencies are bound by the interrogation tactics identified in the Army Field Manual. Click here to view our press release.

On October 6, Almudena Bernabeu and CJA received the Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award for our successful prosecution of several of the worst Latin American perpetrators of crimes against humanity.

This panel discussion, held on October 1, explored the human rights implications of the backlash against Sanctuary City policies. The event featured SF Supervisor David Campos, Maria Echaveste from UC Berkeley, and Grisel Ruiz from the Immigrant Legal

The Centre for Justice and Accountability (CJA) called for Sri Lanka’s war-affected communities to be involved in meaningful consultations “ at every level” to shape an accountability mechanism to prosecute for war crimes in Sr Lanka, and warned against attempts to “water down” a resolution at the UN Human Rights Council.

CJA sends letter to Ambassador Keith M. Harper, U.S. Representative to the U.N. Human Rights Council, as first draft of U.S.-led resolution on Sri Lanka in presented before the UN Human Rights Council. Click here to read the letter.

On September 16, the Fourth Circuit will hear oral argument in Warfaa v. Ali, a case brought by the Center for Justice and Accountability under the Alien Tort Statute (ATS) and Torture Victim Protection Act (TVPA) alleging war crimes and other violations of fundamental human rights.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit will hear oral arguments on Wednesday over whether to uphold dismissal of human rights abuse claims brought under the Alien Tort Statute against Colonel Yusuf Abdi Ali, who controlled a region in northern Somalia during the regime of military dictator Mohamed Siad Barré in the 1980s.

Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals to hear CJA case against war criminal living in Virginia. Court to rule on Alien Tort Statute, legislation widely used to prosecute human rights abuses.