Freedom Now

Freedom Now is a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit, non-partisan organization that seeks to facilitate representation for arbitrarily detained individuals who have neither used nor advocated violence and whose detention violates fundamental principles of international law.[1]

Freedom Now
Founded2000 (2000)
FounderJared Genser
FocusHuman rights
Location
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Maran Turner
(Executive director)
Websitefreedom-now.org

Its approach is to use focused legal, political, and public relations advocacy efforts[2] designed to compel the release of individuals deprived of their liberty in violation of the rights and freedoms enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and other international human rights instruments.[3]

A small organization with limited resources, Freedom Now works closely with other human rights organizations and lawyers to identify high-impact cases that would benefit from the organization's approach.

Notable campaigns

Freedom Now represents 22 prisoners of conscience worldwide, including:[4]

Notable past campaigns
Óscar Elías Biscet in 2016.

Prisoners of conscience previously represented by Freedom Now include:[5]

UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention Database

In 2011, Freedom Now partnered with the UN and Thomson Reuters to create the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention Database. The online database includes over 800 legal decisions from 1992 to the present.[6] It is the only searchable, complete database of Working Group decisions available. Freedom Now continues to monitor and update the database.[7]

References
  1. "Our Mission". Freedom Now. Retrieved 2016-07-16.
  2. Kashino, Marisa M. "I'm an American" Washingtonian Oct. 12, 2010. Retrieved June 26, 2011.
  3. Jared Genser & Margaret Winterkorn-Meikle, The Intersection of Politics and International Law: The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention in Theory and Practice, 38 COLUM. HUM. RTS. L. REV. 101, 131 n. 139 (2008).
  4. Current Campaigns Freedom Now, Retrieved on Jan 24, 2011.
  5. Past Campaigns, Freedom Now, Retrieved on June 26, 2011.
  6. MarketScreener. "Thomson Reuters Corp : United Nations, Thomson Reuters and Freedom Now Establish Legal Database | MarketScreener". www.marketscreener.com. Retrieved 2020-01-28.
  7. "United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention Document Search".


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