by Sarah Hamill | Jan 15, 2019 | Articles, Legal Blog, Policy & Legislation
“We have worked hard and just want what is due to us and to go home. We are stuck now in cramped accommodation, with poor food and no clean drinking water. We are treated like animals.”1 By: SARAH HAMILL This Nepalese construction worker in Qatar is not alone in his...
by Cassondra Murphy | Jan 10, 2019 | Articles, Legal Blog, Policy & Legislation
By: CASSONDRA (Cj) MURPHY President Trump signed into law the last of the four bills that represent the most recent reauthorization of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA)1 on January 9, 2019. This law strengthens the federal government’s efforts to combat...
by Jasmine Dela Luna | Dec 19, 2018 | Articles, Case Law, Legal Blog
By: JASMINE DELA LUNA In April 2018, the Supreme Court dealt a blow to human rights advocacy efforts when it held that foreign corporations may not be defendants in civil suits brought under the Alien Tort Statute (ATS) in Jesner v. Arab Bank.1 This ruling means...
by Jessica Skocik | Dec 4, 2018 | Articles, Case Law, Legal Blog
By: JESSICA SKOCIK Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson knew something was not right about GEO Group’s immigration detention facilities when he stated, “Let’s be honest about what’s going on: GEO has a captive population of vulnerable individuals who cannot...
by Elizabeth Ranade Janis | Nov 13, 2018 | Advocacy, Articles, Legal Blog
By: ELIZABETH RANADE JANIS For Harold D’Souza and his family, the complexity of finding and navigating assistance in the criminal justice and social service systems is not an abstraction. In 2003, the D’Souza family arrived in the United States seeking hope and...