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Claire Tixeire
Claire Tixeire works on strategic litigation cases at ECCHR since 2011, where she also directs the Education Program, which trains young lawyers towards a progressive and critical understanding of law. From 2004 to 2011, she worked for the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) seeking criminal accountability of U.S. officials for torture. In those years, she also led the representation of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) before the United Nations in New York.