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Legal Tools: Early Access to Justice in Europe

Part of a toolkit on arrest rights in Europe, this “template brief” from the Open Society Justice Initiative provides lawyers with arguments and research to support litigation in domestic courts.

April 2012
First page of PDF with filename: legal-tools-early-access-20120424.pdf
Briefing Paper

Legal Tools: Arrest Rights and the Right to Information

Part of a toolkit on arrest rights in Europe, this “template brief” from the Open Society Justice Initiative provides lawyers with research on the right of suspects to obtain information during criminal proceedings.

November 2012
First page of PDF with filename: arrest-rights-brief-right-to-Information-20121021.pdf
Briefing Paper

Legal Tools: Right to Legal Aid

Part of a toolkit on arrest rights in Europe, this “template brief” from the Open Society Justice Initiative provides lawyers with research on the right to legal aid for suspects and accused persons.

April 2013
First page of PDF with filename: arrest-rights-template-legal-aid-20130412.pdf
Briefing Paper

Legal Tools: International Standards on Criminal Defense Rights

This case digest sets out relevant extracts of the ICCPR and summaries of all of the key case law interpreting those standards by the Human Rights Committee.

April 2013
First page of PDF with filename: digests-arrest rights-human-rights-committee-20130419.pdf
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Legal Tools: European Standards on Criminal Defense Rights

This case digest covers all of the core procedural rights that underpin access to justice and a fair trial. It summarizes all key case law from the European Court of Human Rights.

April 2013
First page of PDF with filename: digests-arrest rights-european-court-human-rights-20130419.pdf
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
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Submission to the UN Human Rights Committee: Review of Germany

This submission to the 106th session of the UN Human Rights Committee argues that several primary and secondary schools in Berlin are segregating migrant children into classes that provide vastly inferior education.

September 2012
First page of PDF with filename: hrc-germany-10172012.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
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