CAL’s 2025 Annual Report

By the end of 2025, corporate power had reached heights never contemplated by our nation’s founders. Whether this level of power harms the majority is no longer seriously in question; the more important question is whether we are willing to defend institutions capable of holding them accountable.

As democracy has come under increasing pressure, we've watched governments retreat from enforcing human rights protections, attacks on civil society intensify, and the Trump administration openly target nonprofits, universities, and even the legal profession. Just when human rights organizations are needed most, we are being asked to do more with fewer resources, and with ever stronger headwinds.

For CAL, this is the moment we were made for.