PLEASE JOIN US AS A SPONSOR OF CJA S ANNUAL EVENT

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1 PLEASE JOIN US AS A SPONSOR OF CJA S ANNUAL EVENT SPONSORSHIP LEVELS Wednesday, April 28, 2010 The City Club, San Francisco, CA VIP Reception 6:00 PM Drinks and Buffet Dinner Reception 6:30 PM Program 7:30 PM with Dessert Reception to Follow Presenting Sponsor 10 tickets to the event with premium seating $15, tickets to the VIP reception Full page ad in the printed program and Premium Placement Logo recognition Underwriter 10 tickets to the event with preferred seating $10,000 8 tickets to the VIP reception Half-page ad in the printed program Patron 10 tickets to the event with preferred seating $5,000 6 tickets to the VIP reception Quarter-page ad in the printed program Advocate 6 tickets to the event $3,000 4 tickets to VIP reception One-eighth page ad in the printed program Defender 2 tickets to the event $1,000 2 tickets to the VIP reception Listing in the printed program Partner 1 ticket to the event and VIP reception $500 Listing in the printed program Friend 1 ticket to the event $250 Listing in the printed program 870 Market St, Suite 688 San Francisco, CA tel: fax: info@cja.org cja.org

2 PAST LAW FIRM SPONSORS Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP Bass Berry & Sims PLC Beveridge & Diamond PC Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Holland & Knight LLP Law Offices of Hadsell & Stormer Heller Ehrman LLP James Mintz Group Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP Morrison & Foerster Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP O Melveny & Myers LLP Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP Patton Boggs, LLP Rosen, Bien & Galvan LLP Schonbrun De Simone Seplow Harris & Hoffman, LLP Shearman & Sterling, LLP Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP Van Der Hout & Brigagliano Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Foundation PAST INSTITUTIONAL SPONSORS AND NGOs American Immigration Lawyers Association A.M. Fund Amnesty International USA Asociación Pro Derechos Humanos de España (APDHE) California Economic Development Lending Initiative Center for Constitutional Rights Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, NYU School of Law Clinica Martín-Baró EarthRights International El Rescate Firedoll Foundation Global Exchange Human Rights Watch International Bar Association Foundation, Inc. International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission International Human Rights Clinic, Cornell University Law School International Human Rights Law Clinic & Human Rights Program, University of Virginia School of Law International Human Rights Law Clinic, Berkeley Law, University of California Jewish Community Endowment Fund May I Speak Freely Media Northern California Community Loan Fund Oak Philanthropy (UK) Limited Open Society Institute Program for Torture Victims Refuge Media Project Salt River Production Group School fo the Americas Watch West Shargel & Co. Shargel & Company Insurance Services Sigrid Rausing Trust Survivors International Survivors of Torture, International The Center for International Policy The Center for Victims of Torture The Focal Point LLC The Institute for Redress and Recovery, Santa Clara University School of Law The Tannenbaum Family Partnership The Unemployed Philosophers Guild Thomas J. Dodd Research Center Tides Foundation Union Bank of California United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture Yale Law School CJA has become the leader in the never-ending fight to demonstrate to the world that America has not forgotten its ideals. Honorable Robert White, Former U.S. Ambassador

3 past honorees and speakers 2009 Paul Farmer, M.D., Ph.D.: world-renowned medical anthropologist, physician and founder of Partners In Health; Professor in the Department of Social Medicine, Harvard University. Bureau Des Avocats Internationaux (Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti): Leading Haitian human rights legal NGO; key partner in CJA s distribution of over $500,000 to Haitian massacre survivors Harold Hongju Koh: Legal Adviser of the U.S. Department of State; former Dean of Yale Law School and Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law. Francisco Soberón Garrido: Founder of the Association for Human Rights in Peru (APRODEH) and a driving force behind the historic human rights prosecution of former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori Paul Hoffman: co-founder of CJA and an attorney on numerous high profile international human rights cases in the U.S., including the decisive 2004 Supreme Court Case Sosa v Alvarez-Machain. Rigoberta Menchú Tum: the first indigenous and the youngest person ever to receive the Nobel Peace Prize (1992). She is one of CJA s main partners on the Guatemala Genocide Case. CJA is performing groundbreaking work. If the promise of the Nuremberg Charter and the hopes of international justice are to be achieved, it is crucial for the U.S. and its courts to be active participants. CJA is leading the efforts of lawyers and activists to enlist the U.S. courts in this global campaign for international justice. CJA s lawyers are among the most creative, energetic and effective lawyers whose work I have had the opportunity to observe. Judge Baltasar Garzon, Spanish judge, in the case against former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet

4 Yes, I/my company/organization would like to become a sponsor at the following level: $15,000 $10,000 $5,000 $3,000 $1,000 $500 $250 Sponsor Contact Information Name of Company/Organization or Individual(s): (please list as you wish it to appear in printed materials) Company/Organization Contact (if applicable): Address: City: State: Zip: Phone: A check is enclosed (please make check payable to CJA) Card No: Please charge my credit card (circle one): Visa MC Exp. Date: Name as it appears on card: Signature: Please mail this form and payment to: Development Department Center for Justice & Accountability 870 Market St, Suite 688, San Francisco, CA attn: Annual Event Or fax or this form to: fax: ecallahan@cja.org attn: Annual Event Questions? Contact Erin Callahan phone: ext ecallahan@cja.org 870 Market St, Suite 688 San Francisco, CA tel: fax: info@cja.org cja.org

5 who we are The Center for Justice and Accountability is an international 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 transitioning from periods of abuse. Founded in 1998 with support from Amnesty International and the UN Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture to represent torture survivors in their pursuit of justice. CJA has pioneered a survivorcentered approach to the quest for justice that combines legal representation with medical and psycho-social services to both empower and heal torture survivors and their communities. what we do CJA is part of the movement for global justice for those who have been tortured or have suffered other severe human rights abuses. CJA was founded on the principle, first used during the Nuremberg trials after World War II, that certain crimes are so egregious that they represent offenses against all humankind. These crimes include genocide, crimes against humanity, extrajudicial killing and torture. CJA believes that perpetrators of such violations should be brought to justice wherever they are found. CJA uses two civil laws to hold perpetrators of international human rights abuses accountable in the United States: the Alien Tort Statute and the Torture Victim Protection Act. We also pursue criminal human rights cases before the Spanish National Court which has initiated investigations into abuses around the world. The most famous of these cases, against Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, represented the first time that a former head of state was prosecuted on the victims initiative. CJA leverages resources by partnering with pro bono law firms, expert witnesses and others to help litigate our cases. CJA s cases serve as a catalyst for transitional justice and accountability efforts around the world. Human Rights Litigation human rights litigation CJA is now the leading non-governmental organization that brings cases against individual human rights abusers in the United States and Spain. We have filed cases against human rights violators from Bosnia, Chile, China, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Indonesia, Peru and Somalia. CJA also participates in other cases important to the human rights community by authoring or signing onto amicus briefs filed in U.S. appellate courts, the Inter- American Court of Human Rights, and other venues. u.s. human rights policy, legislation & enforcement CJA works on a variety of U.S. human rights legislative, policy & enforcement efforts. We focus particular attention on supporting policy initiatives that advance the U.S. government s commitment to criminally prosecute human rights abusers. CJA also has a unique working relationship with the U.S. law enforcement authorities tasked with the deportation, extradition and denaturalization of human rights abusers. transitional justice support CJA works directly with foreign governments on a variety of transitional justice initiatives. We work alongside in-country prosecutors to hold human rights abusers criminally accountable in national courts. We also organize trainings that focus on imparting the practical how to specifics of bringing successful national court human rights prosecutions. partnerships, outreach & public education CJA partners with torture treatment centers, medical professionals, therapists, refugee groups, law firms, law school clinics, and human rights non-governmental organizations. CJA mobilizes torture survivors to speak publicly to personalize the issue of torture and to empower other survivors to seek justice.