Litigation Grants (2008)

• Center for Constitutional Rights

  To provide representation and/or pro bono coordination to over 200 pending habeas petitions arising from indefinite detention in Guantanamo Bay; to seek the closure of Guantanamo and the "safe" resettlement/repatriation of cleared detainees; to build the public record and seek accountability for extraordinary rendition, torture and abuse; and to pursue an aggressive public education programme on the illegality of such prior conduct.

• Center for Justice and International Law

  To pursue litigation in the Inter-American system to obtain redress for victims of gross abuses and systemic improvements in the implementation of national law, including through the strengthening of the Inter-American system.

• EarthRights International

  To hold corporations accountable in the United States courts for complicity in egregious human rights abuses including summary executions, forced displacement and labour, and disappearances and torture; and to develop the international legal framework to enforce accountability for the complicity of non-state actors in human rights abuses.

• Interights

  To combat impunity through litigation on torture, unlawful killings and detention, enforced disappearances and lack of fair trial guarantees; to build the capacity of legal partners by increasing the accessibility of legal materials, expanding outreach activities and the development of an online case database.

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