When the Corinthian colleges told their students empty promises and robbed them of their time and money, thousands of students were left with invalid certificates, unemployed, and debt. NMAP partnered with Public Counsel, the largest pro bono law firm in […]
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Student Fraud Relief: How to Apply for Federal Loan Forgiveness
In 2015, Department of Justice found that Corinthian College Inc, the company that owned Everest, WyoTech, and Heald colleges, had routinely lied to their students in order to drive up enrollment rates. For this reason, the US DoE offers federal […]
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Tackling the Accountability Gap
NMAP partnered with the Eurpoean Center for Constitutional and Human Rights to support their work holding multinational pesticide producers legally accountable when their products harm people and the environment. Rather than taking a product off the market when its found […]
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Stopping Demolitions in Lagos
The water-dwelling slum community of Makoko-on-Water was under threat of demolition by the Lagos government. NMAP partnered with the Social and Economic Rights Action Center to develop a media advocacy strategy to help them protect the community. We produced two […]
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Silence Interrupted: Pervasive Gender-Based Violence in Armenia
We worked with the Women’s Resource Center to produce a documentary to help them deliver their message of “breaking the silence” on gender-based violence. The video features rarely heard voices of survivors, as well as service providers, activists, and other […]
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Words That Kill: Introduction
In collaboration with Colectivo de Abogados, Corporacion Juridica Yira Castro, and the Bertha Foundation, N-MAP created the Words That Kill series to help Colombian human rights defenders fight defamation campaigns and false accusations. Human rights groups there have long-been targets […]
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Separate and Unequal: Health Care Disparities in New York City
NMAP worked with New York Lawyers for the Public Interest and their client, Bronx Health REACH on a challenging and complex legislative campaign on the segregation of healthcare services in New York City. Many large private hospitals in New York […]
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Recovering Agricultural Areas in the Urban Environment
NMAP partnered with the Comision de Cuenca to make three videos that explain important projects of the Hydric Plan. In this case, this video presents an alternative plan that would stop the spread of urbanism and explains how a group […]
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Restoring Local Democracy in Michigan
NMAP teamed up with the Advancement Project and local organizing group, Michigan Forward, to challenge Michigan’s Public Act 4, which gave state-appointed “Emergency Managers” almost complete control over local governments, allowing them to dissolve existing democratically elected governments, sell off […]
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Protecting Property Rights in Georgia
From 2004 to 2012, the Georgian government undertook a series of economic development projects intended to improve infrastructure, encourage investment, and boost the country’s capacity for tourism. In order to complete many of these projects, the authorities illegally expropriated private […]
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Protecting Native American Sovreignty
California’s Tule River Tribe provides a model for implementing a comprehensive public safety program, from tribe police officers to a fire department and ambulances.
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Justice in Armenia: Saving Yerevan’s Cultural Heritage
We collaborated with activist photographer Hayk Bianjyan and the advocacy organization Victims of State Need, to produce videos documenting the unlawful destruction of buildings in Armenia’s capital. Yerevan’s historic architecture—the most visible manifestation of its cultural heritage—is being destroyed at […]
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Addressing Forced Disappearances in the Migrant Community
NMAP produced this video with Fundación para la Justicia y el Estado Democrático de Derecho (FJEDD) to help them tackle the deeply challenging task of creating a transnational mechanism for addressing issues of forced disappearances of migrants in Mexico. After […]
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Ending Long-Term Solitary Confinement in California
Inmates at Pelican Bay State Prison were being held in solitary confinement for decades at time, isolated in a cell the size of a parking lot for 22 to 24 hours a day. Ten men in Pelican Bay sued the […]
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Organizing Victims of Demolitions in Lagos
This video tells the story of one of Social and Economic Rights Action Center’s long-standing client communities – the people of Maroko, a town in Lagos that was illegally demolished by the Lagos State government over 20 years ago. The […]
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Holding Romanian Mental Institutions Accountable
NMAP partnered with human rights litigation organization, Interights, and local partners in Bulgaria and Romania, to support the Campeanu v. Romania case, which focused on a young man with developmental disabilities who died of HIV due to neglect in a […]
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Never Again What? Fighting Impunity in Uruguay
NMAP and the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) co-produced two videos to advocate for reopening cases related to crimes committed under the military dictatorship in Uruguay (1973- 1985), and to bring truth and justice for families of the […]
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Small Claims Chapter 9 – Filing a Counterclaim
We collaborated with Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada to walk people through the process of representing themselves in small claims court.
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Small Claims Chapter 8 – Defending Against a Small Claims Case
We collaborated with Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada to walk people through the process of representing themselves in small claims court.
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Small Claims Chapter 7 – How to Collect Your Small Claims Judgement
We collaborated with Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada to walk people through the process of representing themselves in small claims court.
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