Publications
Read and download reports, handbooks, briefing papers, legal and policy submissions, and fact sheets from the Open Society Justice Initiative.
Migrant Rights: a Practical Guide to Litigation and Administrative Action at the EU Level
This guide takes stock of the mechanisms that asylum seekers, (irregular) migrants, and NGOs representing them can use in order to vindicate these rights against European Union institutions and bodies.
December, 2024Displacement by Design: Resisting Denmark's Race-based Housing Laws
This report presents stories and photographs of residents of the Mjølnerparken housing development in Copenhagen where hundreds have been forced to leave their homes under the Danish government's so-called "Ghetto Package".
December, 2024Q&A: Bringing a Case Before the International Court of Justice for the Rights of Afghan Women and Girls
This paper addresses questions around the feasibility of bringing a complaint at the International Court of Justice against Afghanistan's Taliban for egregious and prevalent violations of women’s and girls’ rights.
November, 2024Litigating the Right to a Nationality: A Guide for Practitioners
This guide provides resources for practitioners to develop strategies to use litigation to achieve progress towards the realisation of the right to a nationality for all.
November, 2024International and Regional Standards on Judicial Independence
This research memo identifies and analyzes relevant international and regional standards regarding the independence of the judiciary.
May, 20242024 Global Human Rights Litigation Report
Read highlights of litigation undertaken by the Open Society Justice Initiative, plus a representative selection of cases illustrating the depth and range of its global litigation work on human rights and international humanitarian law.
February, 2024Accountability for Crimes of Personnel of the Wagner Group in Ukraine
A legal analysis of the status of the Wagner Group under international humanitarian law and implications of that status for prosecuting its personnel for international crimes allegedly committed in Ukraine.
November 2023Immunities and a Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine
This briefing paper provides a non-exhaustive overview of the application of immunities to prosecutions for the crime of aggression, particularly to the Russian head of state, head of government, and minister of foreign affairs, before a Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine.
February 01, 2023