The Open Society Justice Initiative has prepared short summaries of the decisions on admissibility and merits taken by the UN Human Rights Committee at its 100th session, held in October 2010.

Read short summaries of the decisions and views which the UN Committee against Torture took on individual communications at its 41st and 42nd sessions, held respectively in November 2008 and May 2009.

Read short summaries of the decisions and views which the UN Committee against Torture took at its 43rd and 44th sessions, held respectively in November 2009 and May 2010.

Read summaries of decisions and views which the UN Committee against Torture took on individual communications at its 45th session in November 2010.

The Open Society Justice Initiative is calling on the European Union to raise the torture and imprisonment of Azimjan Askarov, a prominent human rights defender in talks with Kyrgyzstan in September.

This working paper sets out Open Society Foundations’ vision of how legal empowerment can support development and justice by ensuring that the law is not confined to books or courtrooms, but is available to everyone.

Short summaries of decisions and views which the UN Committee against Torture took on individual communications at its 47th session in November 2011.

The Justice Initiative has prepared short summaries of decisions and views which the UN Committee against Torture took on individual communications at its 46th session in May 2011.