The Trump administration is feeling the pressure. All around the country people have been coming together and standing up to his dangerous policies, saying, “We won’t go back.”
Both at home and abroad, GJC knows that fighting back works.
We invite you to join us this week as we stand together with the legal community in New York City to protest an agenda that violates human rights.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE— February 14 2017
[NEW YORK] – This weekend, the German newspaper “Welt am Sonntag” reported that in December, the German Federal Prosecutor’s Office obtained an international arrest warrant for a high-ranking ISIS commander who according to sources was “significantly responsible to the sexual slavery of Yazidi women and girls.” The warrant for genocide and war crimes, would be the first international arrest warrant for what is an ongoing genocide against the Yazidi.
GJC's Senior Burma Researcher and Director of Operations, Phyu Phyu Sann, was quoted in Holly Reeve's article on ASEAN, "In words and pictures: The devastating cruelty of Myanmar".
GJC Senior Burma Researcher Phyu Phyu Sann's letter to the editor was published in today's New York Times, calling on the international community to honor the legacy of murdered Burmese lawyer U Ko Ni.
This week the courts are standing up to Trump, proving once again that the law can stop tyranny in its tracks.
GJC knows what resistance looks like.
