Center for Justice and Accountability

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When I was 9 years old, my mother, Ana María Villarreal was viciously murdered, alongside other political prisoners. That is how they took my mother from me. For decades, we have been waiting for all those responsible for this massacre to be tried and convicted. Now I have hope that we can get justice with regard to Bravo, who has been hiding out in the United States for so long, said Marcela Santucho, one of the plaintiffs in the case against Roberto Guillermo Bravo that CJA filed in Florida last week. See more about the case here: https://cja.org/what-we-do/litigation/camps-v-bravo/

Bravo has lived for decades in luxury and comfort in the United States after having committed atrocities against our families. My children were 4 and 5 when their father, my late husband Rubén Bonet was murdered in a massacre that Bravo participated in. I hope that the American justice system will no longer serve as a safe haven for Bravo and, instead, help us get justice for his crimes, said Alicia Krueger (formerly Bonet), one of the Plaintiffs in the case against Roberto Guillermo bravo, filed in Florida last week. Read more about about the case here: https://cja.org/what-we-do/litigation/camps-v-bravo/

My father, who survived the Trelew Massacre dedicated his life to expose the truth, but he was murdered before he could get justice, said Raquel Camps Pargas, one of the Plaintiffs In the Trelew Massacre case and daughter of Alberto Camps, one of the Trelew Massacre Victims, I hope that the U.S. justice system can help us achieve his goal, get accountability, and finally close this painful chapter in Argentine history by ending 50 years of impunity for Bravo. I hope tha...t through this case before a U.S. court, others can understand the traumatic consequences and irreparable family pain caused by Bravo and his associates, and show how life was upended for those who were and still are victims of the Massacre in Trelew, said Mariano Camps, Alberto Camps’ son. To read more about the case go here: https://cja.org/what-we-do/litigation/camps-v-bravo/

On Monday, join CJA senior staff attorney Claret Vargas and Carolina Solano from the Colombian Truth Commission at a panel on human rights litigation, hosted by the International Human Rights Clinic at Duke Law School and moderated by Clinical Professor Aya Fujimura-Fanselow. Speakers will discuss opportunities and challenges in using U.S. courts to advance accountability for grave human rights violations committed abroad, highlighting cases involving Colombia and Chile. For registration and details, please visit https://bit.ly/301eqph

Since August 22, 1972, my family has been seeking justice for these acts of State terrorism, said Eduardo Cappello one of the Plaintiffs in the Trelew Massacre case filed by the Center for Justice and Accountability on Tuesday. When the other perpetrators of the Trelew Massacre were convicted in 2012, my grandmother, Soledad, who was 90 years old, felt that her lifelong struggle had not been in vain. ‘Now we fight to get justice from Bravo’ she said. But she died in 2016 without seeing accountability for Bravo’s crimes. I hope the U.S. justice system helps us finally achieve what we have fought for so hard and so long: justice. Read more about the case here: https://cja.org/what-we-do/litigation/camps-v-bravo/

Atrocity crimes don’t take place in a vacuum, and justice demands accountability for those who profit and benefit from human rights abuses. Today, CJA and Human Rights First filed a brief in a child slavery case against Nestlé and Cargill at the US Supreme Court urging it to ensure victims of the most serious rights violations have a remedy in US courts against aiders and abettors. Read here: https://cja.org//amicus-br/doe-v-nestle-and-doe-v-cargill/

BREAKING: Yesterday, the families of four victims of the Trelew Massacre - a 1972 massacre of nineteen political prisoners in Argentina - filed a case against Roberto Guillermo Bravo for his role in the Southern District of South Florida. Bravo, a former Argentine navy officer and current resident of Florida, has evaded criminal accountability in Argentina because he lives in the U.S. and has avoided extradition. Accountability matters. The Trelew Massacre was a precursor of... later atrocities by Argentina's military in times of dictatorship. The impunity for the perpetrators of the massacre emboldened the military and paved the way for the years of arbitrary detentions, torture, extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances that became the hallmark of the 1976-1983 dictatorship. The Center for Justice and Accountability, CELS - Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales, Keker, Van Nest & Peters LLP and Markus/Moss PLLC represent the families of four of the victims of the Trelew Massacre. After almost 50 years of impunity, the families of the victims of the Trelew Massacre deserve justice. It's time. For more information see here: https://cja.org/what-we-do/litigation/camps-v-bravo/press/ Photo courtesy of Alejandra Guerra.

Join our discussion on Monday ahead of UN Human Rights Council UPR review of Liberia to hear civil society leaders Adama Dempster and Hassan Bility of the Global Justice Research Project how and why the #Quest4Justice for war crimes in Liberia has stalled

Hearing on Structural Racism and Police Brutality before the Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos begins, watch live on facebook

Wednesday Oct. 4 at 11AM EST: Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (Inter-American Commission on Human Rights) will hold a hearing on structural racism and police violence in the US. Hear from Mothers Against Police Brutality, Inc. Professor Justin Hansford Kerry Kennedy & Gina Clayton-Johnson of Essie Justice Group / The Movement for Black Lives on the urgent need for accountability, reparations, and transformative systemic change. Register for the hearing here: http...s://us02web.zoom.us//register/WN_9t46CN7cSey8Jdfr6dMFog After the hearing, join us for a Q&A to hear concrete steps the US should take to address racist policing & protect Black communities in line with its international obligations, including a discussion on the need to divest from police institutions + reinvest in Black & other communities of color as a form of transformative reparations. Register for the Q&A here: https://rfkhumanrights.zoom.us///WN_BZ9fy2_GTaWMyFuQtq40kg pc: Ron Cogswell https://flic.kr/p/2e7rFKb

Before she was a jurist, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was an advocate, a litigator, and a human rights defender. For those of us who seek to make change through the law and in our courts, she is an inspiration and a guide. Thank you, Justice Ginsburg. #RBG https://www.aclu.org//tribute-legacy-ruth-bader-ginsburg-a

Come join the Center for Justice and Accountability as a Transitional Justice Fellow in 2021-22! Details here: https://bit.ly/2Q0sTfR This fellowship will give recent graduates in law, international relations, or a related field the opportunity to work for one year as a transitional justice fellow. The fellow will participate in programs designed to strengthen our partners’ abilities to pursue justice in post-conflict or transitional countries, including applying a diverse set of tools for human rights and legal advocacy. CJA will work with selected candidates to identify appropriate sources of external funding and develop proposals. We'll be reviewing applications on a rolling basis, starting October 1, 2020. Applicants are encouraged to apply as soon as possible.