CJA is an international human rights organization dedicated to ending torture and other severe human rights abuses around the world. http://www.cja.org/
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- Founded:
- San Francisco, California 1998
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Events
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- CJA's Annual Event
The City Club, San Francisco, CA
Wednesday, April 28 at 6:30pm - Conference Marking 20th Annive...
St. Ignatius Church, USF Campus, Sa...
Monday, November 16 at 10:30am - 20th Anniversary of the Jesuit...
Mission Street and 24th Street, San...
Monday, November 16 at 4:00pm - Survivor's Perspectives on Int...
The Women's Building, 3543 18th Str...
Thursday, October 22 at 6:00pm - Survivor's Perspectives on Int...
The Women's Building
Thursday, October 22 at 6:00pm - CJA'S 10th Anniversary With Dr...
The City Club
Tuesday, March 17 at 6:30pm - CJA Facebook Page Launch
The Internet
Monday, February 16 at 9:00pm
Links
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San Francisco, CA – This week, the Center for Justice and Accountability (CJA) stepped up its efforts to hold psychologist Dr. John Francis Leso accountable for his participation in abusive interrogation and torture of detainees at Guantánamo Bay. In a letter to the New York Office of Professional ...
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Center for Justice and Accountability
CJA's case against a Guantanamo Bay psychologist is the cover feature in Mother Jones Magazine. Check it
out...
http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/07/
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Human rights groups target two military psychologists with ethics complaints for complicity in torture.
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Human rights groups target two military psychologists with ethics complaints for complicity in torture.
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Psychologists in the United States have been warned by their professional group not to take part in torturing detainees in U.S. custody.
Center for Justice and Accountability
Democracy Now covers CJA's and Harvard Human
Rights Clinic's cases against GITMO pyschologists.
Two U.S. military psychologists are facing complaints with their state licensing boards over their actions at Guantanamo Bay. The psychologists, Major General John Leso and Col. Larry James, are accused of helping perpetrate the abuse and torture of prisoners in violation of standards of profession...
Center for Justice and Accountability BREAKING NEWS: Today, CJA files a misconduct complaint to revoke a GITMO psychologist's license. More info here...
cja.org
New York, NY -- July 7, 2010: Today, in what marks the latest step in the national movement against torture, the Center for Justice and Accountability (CJA) filed a complaint with the New York State Office of Professions, calling for an investigation of Dr. John Francis Leso for his participation in...
Center for Justice and Accountability Britain launches an official torture inquiry.
PM moves to ensure courts will no longer be able to disclose evidence about British complicity in torture
Center for Justice and Accountability CJA presentó una demanda civil en EE.UU. contra un ex jefe paramilitar de Colombia...
epa - european pressphoto agency: Presentan una demanda en EE.UU. contra un ex jefe paramilitar de C
Miami (EE.UU.), 1 jul (EFE).- Una organización internacional de derechos humanos presentó una demanda civil contra el ex jefe paramilitar colombiano Carlos Mario Jiménez, alias "Macaco", en un tribunal de Estados Unidos por "tortura, ejecución sumaria, crímenes de guerr...a y delitos de lesa humanidad"...
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Following the conviction of former police commander Jon Burge, members of Chicago's congressional delegation are sponsoring legislation to lift the statute of legislation on charges of torture by law enforcement officers. At a news conference Thursday, Rep. Danny Davis said that Burge's conviction o...
Center for Justice and Accountability Read an interview with CJA's Almudena Bernabeu on the case CJA just filed against a Colombian paramilitary chief and drug trafficker who oversaw the torture and killing of human rights activists in Colombia.
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Extradited AUC leader Macaco is the first paramilitary to be sued in U.S. courts for alleged human rights violations, according to lawyer in charge of the case, Almudena Bernabeu, from the Center for Justice and Accountability.
Jon Burge, a former commander, had become a symbol of police brutality in Chicago, and will now face punishment three decades after the complaints began.
Last week the Supreme Court refused to hear my case. This eliminates any remaining hope for me of obtaining justice through the U.S. judicial system against US officials who sent me to Syria to be tortured.
Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs Oscar Fernandez-Taranco gave a closed-door briefing to Council members in which he said it was vital to avoid provocations that might re-ignite the violence between ethnic Kyrgyz and Uzbeks that erupted in the cities of Osh and Jalalabad and other to...
Somaliland, a relatively peaceful, organized piece of the Somali puzzle, hopes to become a separate nation.
