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Since 2003, the Open Society Justice Initiative has worked with partners around the world to ensure that law—too often an instrument of powerful people alone—is shaped and employed for the benefit of all.
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Litigating with a Global Perspective
- The Justice Initiative pursues pathbreaking direct litigation, focusing on cases that provide justice to victims and survivors of transnational and international legal violations.
- The Justice Initiative supplements its own litigation work by financing bold, high-impact litigation that seizes time-sensitive opportunities.
- The Justice Initiative works as a convener, to create the spaces needed to share litigation approaches, learn from common challenges and spark legal action across borders.
Within the broad spectrum of Open Society Foundations’ work of protecting and promoting rights, equity and justice the Justice Initiative will specifically focus on three broad and permeable areas of litigation:
(i) international justice for the commission of grave crimes;
(ii) abuses of power by large economic actors that threaten open society values; and
(iii) inclusive democratic practice, with an eye to ensuring equal access and participation, defending guardrails and protecting independent voices.