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Global litigation strategies to close the accountability gap on human rights violators in Iran


Global litigation strategies to close the accountability gap on human rights violators in Iran
Event Recaps
by
Lucy Grathwohl
On December 15, 2020, the Atlantic Council launched its Strategic Litigation Project. Atlantic Council nonresident senior fellow Gissou Nia and a panel of litigators Haydee Dijkstal, Amanda Ghahremani, Scott Gilmore discussed the tools through which the perpetrators of gross human rights violations in the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) can be held accountable in the United States, Europe, and Canada. The panel follows the release of the Strategic Litigation Project’s debut report, “Closing the Accountability Gap on Human Rights Violators in the Islamic Republic of Iran through Global Litigation Strategies,” which focuses on current strategic litigation tools and possible new legal mechanisms to hold IRI officials accountable for human rights violations and atrocity crimes. ....

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