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Language Magazine
March 19, 2018
... 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 ofÃâà...
Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
March 19, 2018
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 aÃâà...
RT
March 10, 2018
Romero's killers were never brought to justice. A giant banner with the picture of Oscar Romero in San Salvador Ãâé 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 obscureÃâà...
Global News Network
March 9, 2018
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 20thÃâà...
Front Page Africa
March 7, 2018
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 againstÃâà...
Global News Network
March 5, 2018
... 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 20thÃâà...
Just Security
February 26, 2018
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,Ãâà...
KQED
February 12, 2018
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, womenÃâà...
Front Page Africa
January 22, 2018
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 theÃâà...
HuffPost
January 7, 2018
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, andÃâà...
