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8 Mar 2019, 2:30 pm
In 2005, Jessica Lenahan (formerly Gonzalez), a domestic violence survivor co-represented by the ACLU, filed a petition with the IACHR against the U.S. based on a local Colorado police department’s failure to enforce a restraining order against her estranged husband who had abducted her three children. [read post]
16 Oct 2018, 3:15 pm
  And this month, PBS is featuring the Home Truth documentary on the life and work of Jessica Lenahan, a Colorado woman who became a human rights activist after Colorado police refused to enforce her restraining order against her ex-husband, leading to the death of her three daughters. [read post]
2 Jun 2017, 8:57 am by Jeanne M. Hannah
Home Truth, the documentary film about Jessica Lenahan (formerly Gonzales) will premier on Sunday, June 11 and Monday, June 12 at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival in NYC! [read post]
4 May 2017, 7:40 pm by Human Rights at Home Blog
In particular, Home Truth, screened on June 11 and June 12, follows Jessica Lenahan... [read post]
30 Aug 2016, 12:10 pm by Human Rights at Home Blog
The Commission found that the United States violated Jessica Lenahan's human rights when it endorsed the failure of Castle Rock,... [read post]
15 Dec 2015, 2:00 pm
After the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights concluded in 2011 that the U.S. violated the human rights of domestic violence survivor Jessica Lenahan and her children, we began pushing for broad reforms of the criminal justice system’s response to gender-based violence. [read post]
20 Feb 2015, 2:30 am by Bruce Provda
In 1999, Jessica Lenahan-Gonzales’s estranged husband took their three girls by violating a permanent restraining order. [read post]
17 Dec 2014, 8:07 am by Kirsten Matoy Carlson
In October, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, during a follow-up hearing of the Jessica Lenahan case, noted little to no progress since its initial recommendations to the United States in 2011, and again called on the United States to address the legislative and structural causes of violence against women. [read post]
1 Dec 2014, 2:00 am by Human Rights at Home Blog
The University of Chicago Law School International Human Rights Clinic team with Jessica Lenahan and Rashida Manjoo. [read post]
24 Oct 2014, 1:31 pm by Karen Hoffmann
In 2011, the Commission decided Jessica Lenahan (Gonzales) v. [read post]
25 Jul 2014, 2:00 am by Human Rights at Home Blog
By Carrie Bettinger-Lopez In May 2014, Colorado Senator Irene Aguilar presented a Tribute to Jessica Lenahan (formerly Gonzales), a domestic violence survivor from Colorado whose three children were killed in 1999 after police failed to respond to her calls to... [read post]
For the last 15 years, Jessica Lenahan, who lost her three daughters in a domestic violence incident, has been denied the truth about what really happened to her children and, therefore, the justice that she and all victims rightly deserve. [read post]
19 Dec 2013, 3:30 am by Myrna Raeder
However, the use of international human rights law to affect a paradigm shift in analyzing domestic violence cases and other gendered crimes such as trafficking is a hot topic in the United States since the 2011 decision in Jessica Lenahan (Gonzales) v. [read post]
12 Dec 2013, 5:01 pm by Embajador Microjuris al Día
No sólo se incorporó en el acuerdo para una reforma sustentable de la policía de Puerto Rico, sino que nace además del informe rendido por la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos en el trágico caso que presentó la ACLU ante ese foro internacional contra Estados Unidos, el cual comprende Puerto Rico, el caso Jessica Lenahan v. [read post]
28 May 2013, 10:53 am by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
In 2011, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights found that the United States had violated the human rights of Jessica Lenahan and her three daughters when the police in Castle Rock, Colorado failed to enforce her protective order against her ex-husband. [read post]
8 Mar 2013, 7:13 am by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
In 2011, the IACHR found that the United States had violated the human rights of Jessica Lenahan and her children. [read post]