OUR PROGRAMS
ARBITRARY DETENTION AND ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCE
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
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
SHUTDOWN THE NWPC
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
FEATURED CASES/INITIATIVES
Free Anousheh Ashoori
A British-Iranian engineer trapped in a hostage ordeal in his birth country since 2018.
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.
Advocacy Highlights
Submission to the United Nations- June 2021
GRA lead a successful campaign to get a woman selected as Executive Secretary of the IA-Commission of Human Rights after 60 years of mostly male leadership
#ItIsTimeForAWomen is changing the dynamic of selecting and appointing experts in international human rights bodies
