Activities

Program Areas

The Justice Initiative promotes open society values in several distinct, yet related, thematic program areas:

National criminal justice reform: promotes the state's ability, with active community engagement, to secure order, administer fair and impartial justice, and protect individual rights.

International justice: reinforces mechanisms of accountability for international crimes and breaches of state obligations, including the International Criminal Court, regional protection bodies, and national and mixed tribunals.

Freedom of information and expression: facilitates knowledge of government activity and ensures the right to dissent from official policies by expanding access to information and contesting undue restrictions on print and broadcast media.

Equality and citizenship: furthers freedom of movement between nations, and defends the rights of those most vulnerable to abuse, such as racial and ethnic minorities, women, and noncitizens.

Anticorruption: promotes greater transparency in public institutions as a foundation for more meaningful civic inquiry and participation.

Legal capacity development: cultivates capacity among lawyers and law students to pursue legal advocacy, and fortifies a growing network of legal advocates essential to a global open society.