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Submission to the Committee of Ministers: D.H. and Others v. Czech Republic

The implementation of the European Court of Human Rights' judgment in the Roma education case, DH and others v. Czech Republic, continues to falter. This submission by the Open Society Justice Initiative to the Committee of Ministers of the...

March 2012
First page of PDF with filename: dh-implementation-20120306.pdf
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Submission to the UN Human Rights Committee: Review of the Dominican Republic

This submission tendered by the Open Society Justice Initiative and the Center for Justice and International Law concludes that measures taken by the Dominican Republic since its last periodic review in 2001 have actually operated to increase,...

March 2012
First page of PDF with filename: unhrc-review-dominican-republic-20120215.pdf
Briefing Paper

Submission to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination: Italy

The Open Society Justice Initiative and the Associazione Studi Giuridici sull'Immigrazione ("ASGI") tendered this submission to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in preparation for its periodic review of Italy on March 5, 2012.

February 2012
First page of PDF with filename: cerd-italy-20120223.pdf
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Testimony: Anti-Roma Discrimination and the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights

The Open Society Justice Initiative addressed the Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee of the European Parliament regarding Roma issues and the European Union's Charter of Fundamental Rights.

November 14, 2011 | Tracey Gurd
First page of PDF with filename: libe-gurd-dh-20111114.pdf
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D.H. and others v. Czech Republic: Joint Submission to Committee of Ministers of Council of Europe

A joint report from the Open Society Justice Initiative and the European Roma Rights Centre details the Czech Republic’s failure to end illegal segregation of Romani children in “practical” schools.

November 2011
First page of PDF with filename: dh-committee-of-ministers-submission-11042011.pdf
Briefing Paper

Pretrial Justice: Ensuring Fair Treatment for the Poor

James A. Goldston, executive director of the Open Society Justice Initiative, set out a range of steps needed to ensure fair treatment of the poor by national justice systems during a meeting at the United Nations headquarters in New York.

October 27, 2011
First page of PDF with filename: goldston-pretrial-20111027.pdf
Briefing Paper

France: Ethnic Profiling Challenge

In France, a coalition of advocates is mounting a constitutional challenge to the practice of ethnic profiling. These two short publications summarize the Open Society Justice Initiative's work on the case and the basis of the challenge.

May 2011
First page of PDF with filename: ethnic-profiling-in-france-a-well-documented-practice-english-2011-05-23.pdf
Briefing Paper

Racial Discrimination in the Administration of Justice

A brief submitted by OSI's Open Society Justice Initiative to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination prior to the opening of its 65th session.

August 2, 2004
First page of PDF with filename: racial_justice.pdf
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