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before the International Organizations

What we do

OUR PROGRAMS

Our programs
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GLOBAL FREEDOM

Academics, defenders, immigrants and innocent persons can be unjustly detained or disappeared. GRA takes their cases to the United Nations or the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights 

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HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS

Defending indigenous lands, the environment or immigrant rights could trigger retaliation. GRA represents defenders before the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights and the United Nations

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MIGRANT JUSTICE

For years we documented human rights violations at the NWDC and reported direct voices from detention to the United Nations and the Inter-American Commission. We work to end immigration detention and partner with La Resistencia #FreeThemAll campaign

Advocacy Highlights
Advoacy highlights

ENVIRONMENT AND LAND RIGHTS DEFENDERS

Ricardo Lagunes Gasca, lawyer defending human rights and indigenous territories, and Professor Antonio Díaz Valencia, the leader of the Nahua indigenous community of San Miguel de Aquila, Michoacán, Mexico, were victims of enforced disappearance on January 15, 2023, while defending the community successfully. GRA is representing the families before the United Nations and the Inter-American Commission

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Hostage in Iran

Anoosheh Ashoori is Free

A British-Iranian engineer trapped in a hostage ordeal in his birth country since 2017 is released. 

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Enforced Disappearance Argentina

Find Ivan Torres

His son Ivan Torres disappeared in the hands of the police in Chubut in 2003

The Inter-American Court condemned Argentina and ordered to search for his wereabout

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Freedom and Dignity

In Tacoma WA, the Northwest Processing Center (NWPC), a 1,600 bed jail run by a corporation, houses immigrants waiting for their cases to be resolved or their deportation in punitive conditions. We are raising funds for our Public Interest Law work, reimagining immigration without cages in WA, creating awareness around human rights abuses at the civil prison and following the vision of our immigrant community for rethinking redress by telling their

freedom stories. 

Featured cases/Initiatives
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