Freedom Now

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| location = Washington, D.C., U.S.

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| key_people = Maran Turner
(Executive director)

| area_served = Worldwide

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| focus = Human rights

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| founder = Jared Genser

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Freedom Now is a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit, non-partisan organization that opposes government repression and defends human rights through direct legal support, advocacy, and capacity-building analysis and assistance.{{Cite web|title=About Us {{!}} Freedom Now|url=https://www.freedom-now.org/about-us/|access-date=2021-07-23|website=www.freedom-now.org}}

Its approach is to use focused legal, political, and public relations advocacy effortsKashino, Marisa M. [http://www.washingtonian.com/print/articles/6/0/17038.html "I'm an American"] Washingtonian Oct. 12, 2010. Retrieved June 26, 2011. designed to compel the release of individuals deprived of their liberty in violation of the rights and freedoms enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and other international human rights instruments.Jared Genser & Margaret Winterkorn-Meikle, [http://www.freedom-now.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/CHRLRArticle.pdf The Intersection of Politics and International Law: The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention in Theory and Practice], 38 COLUM. HUM. RTS. L. REV. 101, 131 n. 139 (2008).

A small organization with limited resources, Freedom Now works with other human rights organizations and lawyers{{Examples|date=October 2010}} to identify cases that would benefit from the organization's approach.