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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]
6 Sep 2011, 7:14 am by Women's Rights Group
Jessica Lenahan has become an activist for ending violence against women © Private In June of 1999, Jessica Lenahan lost her three daughters, aged 7, 8, and 10. [read post]
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]
1 Feb 2011, 1:38 pm by pittlegalscholarship
Miami Jessica Lenahan & Caroline Bettinger-Lopez (Miami Law) present “Domestic Violence as a Human Rights Violation: A Survivor’s Journey. [read post]
In the case of Jessica Lenahan, the United States failed to take reasonable measures, failed to effectively prevent domestic violence, failed to protect Jessica and her daughters, and failed to afford Jessica access to a court or any remedy. [read post]
23 Feb 2012, 3:38 am by Jacob Katz Cogan
McQuigg, Domestic Violence and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights: Jessica Lenahan (Gonzales) v United StatesPetr Muzny, Bayatyan v Armenia: The Grand Chamber Renders a Grand JudgmentChristopher Michaelsen, ‘From Strasbourg, with Love’—Preventive Detention before the German Federal Constitutional Court and the European Court of Human RightsSasha Lowes, The Legality of Extraterritorial Processing of Asylum Claims: The Judgment of the High Court of… [read post]
23 Feb 2012, 3:38 am by Jacob Katz Cogan
McQuigg, Domestic Violence and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights: Jessica Lenahan (Gonzales) v United StatesPetr Muzny, Bayatyan v Armenia: The Grand Chamber Renders a Grand JudgmentChristopher Michaelsen, ‘From Strasbourg, with Love’—Preventive Detention before the German Federal Constitutional Court and the European Court of Human RightsSasha Lowes, The Legality of Extraterritorial Processing of Asylum Claims: The Judgment of the High Court of Australia in the… [read post]
8 Mar 2012, 12:47 pm by Suzanne Ito
Jessica Lenahan has taken the issue of police response to domestic violence to the Supreme Court and beyond. [read post]
26 Aug 2011, 9:02 am by Alicia Gay, ACLU
In 1999, Jessica Lenahan (then Jessica Gonzales) repeatedly called the Castle Rock, Colorado, police for help after her estranged husband, Simon Gonzales, kidnapped their three young children in violation of a domestic violence restraining order. [read post]
8 Mar 2011, 5:29 pm by Bridget Crawford
In the next month, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights — a human-rights body within the Organization of American States — is expected to decide the case of Jessica Lenahan (Gonzales) vs. [read post]
5 Dec 2008, 3:48 pm
Lenahan's petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Jessica Gonzales v. [read post]
20 Jul 2011, 7:09 am by Sandra Park, Women's Rights Project
Supreme Court held that Jessica Lenahan had no federal constitutional right to enforcement of her restraining order. [read post]
30 Oct 2011, 7:53 am
While we remember tenacious survivors like Jessica Lenahan and millions of others, we must also remind ourselves in the U.S. about the recent Inter-American Commission on Human Rights decision—we have a long way to go. [read post]
21 Oct 2012, 9:46 am by Lori J. Paul, AACP
In the first case brought by a survivor of domestic violence against the U.S. before an international human rights tribunal, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) found that the United States violated the human rights of Jessica Lenahan (formerly Gonzales) and her children. [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]
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]
19 Aug 2011, 2:55 pm by Rekha Arulanantham, ACLU
Six years ago, Jessica Lenahan turned to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), an international tribunal responsible for promoting and protecting human rights throughout the Americas, because the justice system in the United States had abandoned her. [read post]
26 Aug 2011, 2:23 pm by Rekha Arulanantham, ACLU
We contributed four posts to the blog-a-thon, about domestic violence survivor Jessica Lenahan, insurance coverage of abortion care for military women, the threat to abortion rights and our gene patent lawsuit. [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]