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Briefing Paper

Submission to the UN on Ethnic Profiling in Spain

This submission details the extent and impact of ethnic profiling on minorities in Spain, and how these practices violate international human rights standards.

January 2013
First page of PDF with filename: submission-spain-ethnic-profiling-20130128_0.pdf
Fact Sheet

Fact Sheet: Improving Pretrial Justice in Africa

Organizations across the region are working to combat excessive pretrial detention. Find out where and how.

October 2012
First page of PDF with filename: factsheet-gcptj-africa-10262012.pdf
Fact Sheet

Fact Sheet: The Global Campaign for Pretrial Justice

We seek to document what happens when pretrial justice systems fail, and to develop and share cost-effective ways to get them working.

October 2012
First page of PDF with filename: factsheet-gcptj-overview.10262012.pdf
Briefing Paper

The Global Legal Empowerment Initiative

The UN Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor estimates that four billion people live outside the protection of the law. The Open Society Foundations are working to strengthen and expand access to the law for all.

September 2012
First page of PDF with filename: glei-description-092712.pdf
Briefing Paper

Legal Empowerment: An Integrated Approach to Justice and Development

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.

July 02, 2012
First page of PDF with filename: lep-working-paper-20120701.pdf
Report

Improving Pretrial Justice: The Roles of Lawyers and Paralegals

This report looks at the positive impact that early intervention by lawyers and paralegals can have on pretrial justice and provides a guide to the ways in which lawyer and paralegal schemes can be set up.

April 2012 | Ed Cape
First page of PDF with filename: improving-pretrial-justice-20120416.pdf
Briefing Paper

Submission to the Committee of Ministers: Salduz v. Turkey

The Open Society Justice Initiative is requesting that the Committee of Ministers transfer the European Court of Human Rights' Grand Chamber judgment of Salduz v Turkey to enhanced supervision.

March 2012
First page of PDF with filename: salduz-turkey-20120306.pdf
Briefing Paper

Challenges Facing the International Criminal Court: Recommendations to the Assembly of States Parties

The Open Society Justice Initiative has called on member states of the International Criminal Court to actively support efforts to bolster national justice systems' ability to prosecute international crimes.

December 2011
First page of PDF with filename: challenges-20111212.pdf
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