By Gardea Varney Woodson |Hassan Bility, Director of Liberia’s Global Justice and Research Project, is the 2018 recipient of the Center for Justice and Accountability (CJA)’s Judith Lee Stronach Human Rights Award. The Liberian human rights activist, began his career as editor-in-chief of Liberia’s Analyst Newspaper during the Charles Taylor regime. The Judith Lee Stronach Human Rights Award was established in 2007 to honor individuals or organizations that has made outstanding contribution to the movement for global justice. The Center for Justice and Accountability (CJA) is a San Francisco-based human rights organization dedicated to deterring torture and other severe human rights abuses around the world and advancing the rights of survivors to seek truth, justice and redress. CJA uses litigation to hold perpetrators individually accountable for human rights abuses, develop human rights law, and advance the rule of law in countries.

Source: GNN Liberia March 09, 2018 15:11 UTC