Publications
Read and download reports, handbooks, briefing papers, legal and policy submissions, and fact sheets from the Open Society Justice Initiative.
Kenya: Trial of William Samoei Ruto and Joshua arap Sang at the International Criminal Court
This background paper summarizes the relevant historical and legal background of the trial of William Samoei Ruto and Joshua arap Sang in The Hague.
Case Digests: The European Debt Crisis and Human Rights
Read summaries of important decisions related to the European Debt Crisis, including statements from UN and Council of Europe officials, and decisions of national and regional courts.
Submission to the Universal Periodic Review: Review of Germany
This submission to the Universal Periodic Review of Germany argues that several primary and secondary schools in Berlin are segregating migrant children in separate classes that provide vastly inferior education.
Case Digests: Human Rights Decisions of the Community Court of Justice of West African States (ECOWAS), July 2013
Read summaries of human rights decisions from the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice from July 2011 to February 2013.
Case Digests: Human Rights Decisions of the East African Court of Justice, June 2013
Read summaries of the decisions from the East African Court of Justice from November 2007 to May 2013.
Case Digests: UN Committee on Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) 2004–12
A summary of decisions and views expressed by CEDAW in the period 2011–2012.
Case Digests: UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (77th to 82nd Sessions)
A summary of the decisions on admissibility and merits taken by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination during its 77th to 82nd sessions, from August 2010 to April 2013.
Case Digests: Legal Update on Discrimination
Read summaries of key decisions relating to discrimination, including ethnic profiling, from international and regional courts and tribunals from March 2012 to May 2013.
