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The Center for Justice and Accountability (CJA) is a non-profit international human rights organization based in San Francisco, California. Founded in 1998, CJA represents survivors of torture and other grave human rights abuses in cases against individual rights violators before U.S. and Spanish courts. CJA has pioneered the use of civil litigation in the United States as a means of redress for survivors from around the world.

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... when a wave of immigrants from Central America poured into the U.S. as civil wars ravaged Guatemala and El Salvador, a bloody revolution began in Nicaragua, and Honduras became a training ground for U.S. counter-communism efforts (Center for Justice and Accountability). As a result, thousands of ...

In 2005, lawyers from a human rights group called the Center for Justice and Accountability (CJA) convinced a Memphis jury that Carranza was responsible for systematic torture and murder during the war. As the lead attorney put it at trial, Carranza had “exercised the real power in the high command” at a ...
Romero's killers were never brought to justice. A giant banner with the picture of Oscar Romero in San Salvador © Marvin Recinos / AFP. To date, only one man has been held responsible for Romero's murder. In 2004, a human rights lawyer with the Center for Justice and Accountability used an obscure ...
Hassan Bility, Director of Liberia's Global Justice and Research Project, is the 2018 recipient of the Center for Justice and Accountability (CJA)'s Judith Lee Stronach Human Rights Award. Hassan, a one-time Editor of the Analyst newspaper during Liberia's civil war, received the award at the CJA's 20th ...
The massacre survivors also acknowledged ongoing efforts by the Center for Justice and Accountability (CIA) for filing a lawsuit to a US Court on behalf of victims and survivors of the Liberian Civil War, especially the St. Peter Lutheran Massacre. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of four survivors against ...
... and was arrested and tortured because of his writing. He has testified in several accountability trials against Liberian officials. Mr. Bility will be honored with this year's Judith Lee Stronach Award for his phenomenal work advancing human rights in Liberia, at the Center for Justice and Accountability's 20th ...
The civil lawsuit that the Center for Justice and Accountability (CJA) filed recently on behalf of four survivors of the St. Peter's Lutheran Church Massacre aims to help rectify this impunity. On July 29, 1990, soldiers from the Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) executed approximately 600 unarmed men, women, ...
As commander of a specialized unit in the Liberian military, Moses W. Thomas allegedly directed an assault on a church in the country's capital, Monrovia, in late July 1990, according to the lawsuit filed by the Center for Justice and Accountability. The attack killed approximately 600 unarmed men, women ...
Monrovia - Twenty international, African and Liberia-based human rights organizations have sent an open letter to Liberian President George Weah, calling on his administration to investigate and prosecute war atrocities. According to a release by the Center for Justice and Accountability based in the ...
CJA's success, and that of the international community, is a remarkable two-decade testament to the unyielding, undaunted, savvy, compassionate strength of those on the front lines, seeking truth and justice and accountability. Truth is at the heart of the work of the Center for Justice and Accountability, and ...


 

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