The Open Society Justice Initiative applauds a decision by the European Court of Human Rights expanding the right of watchdog groups to access government information.

The United Nations risks jeopardizing future efforts to secure international justice unless it reconsiders a new anticorruption plan for the court in Cambodia trying senior members of the Khmer Rouge, according to the Open Society Justice Initiative.

New information pointing to Macedonia's role in the wrongful kidnapping of a United States rendition victim provides added weight to legal challenges against the government, said the Open Society Justice Initiative.

In a new op-ed, Open Society Justice Initiative executive director James A. Goldston praises progress made at the International Criminal Court.

The European Union must do more to protect the rights of criminal defendants, according to three recent studies.

The public has been kept in the dark on world's first international treaty on access to information, charges the Open Society Justice Initiative and other rights organizations.

A new book explores the human toll of pretrial detention in Mexico through the stories of people who needlessly suffer in jail, sometimes for years, while awaiting trial.

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe adopted unanimously a resolution expressing concern that the world's first treaty intended to guarantee public access to information had significant flaws, reports the Open Society Justice Initiative.