Some 40,000 migrants arrived in Italy last year as political turmoil swept North Africa. This timeline summarizes principle Italian policy initiatives on migration from 2008 to February, 2012

A two-page fact sheet summarizes a longer legal brief submitted to the judicial authorities in Haiti, arguing that the former Haitian dictator should face trial.

Five international and Haitian legal rights groups are urging the Haitian judicial authorities to press criminal charges against the country's former dictator.

The Open Society Justice Initiative has signed a joint letter to five European justice ministers, urging them to rethink their objections to an initiative that would strengthen arrest rights across the European Union.

The Open Society Justice Initiative and seven other human rights groups have advised the United Kingdom against trying to rush through reforms of the European Court of Human Rights over the next six months, while it holds the chairmanship of the...

16 civil society groups called on the African Commission for Human and Peoples' Rights to work to end excessive use of pretrial detention.

James A. Goldston, executive director of the Open Society Justice Initiative, highlights the impact of statelessness on children, and makes six recommendations to the international community on how to respond.

This joint submission by the Open Society Justice Initiative and the International Refugee Rights Initiative comments on draft guidelines for how the International Criminal Court works with intermediaries.