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Reducing Ethnic Profiling in the European Union: A Handbook of Good Practices

The nearly 100 case studies gathered in this handbook show that efforts to address ethnic profiling can reduce discrimination, and enhance the overall quality and efficiency of law enforcement.

March 06, 2013
First page of PDF with filename: reducing-ep-in-EU-12172012_0.pdf
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Citizens of Nowhere: Solutions for the Stateless in the U.S.

This report focuses on stateless people residing in the United States, a vulnerable population that, under current law, has no path to acquire lawful status or become naturalized U.S. citizens.

December 2012
First page of PDF with filename: citizens-of-nowhere-solutions-for-the-stateless-in-the-us-20121213.pdf
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Failing Another Generation: The Travesty of Roma Education in the Czech Republic

A book of photographs and interviews with the Roma families who challenged Czech school segregation before the European Court of Human Rights.

June 2012
First page of PDF with filename: failing-another-generation-20120601_0.pdf
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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
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Pretrial Detention and Health: Unintended Consequences, Deadly Results

This report, aimed at health professionals, looks at the sometimes disastrous health impacts of the excessive use of pretrial detention.

November 2011
First page of PDF with filename: ptd-health-20111103.pdf
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Joint Statement on Pretrial Detention in Africa

16 civil society groups called on the African Commission for Human and Peoples' Rights to work to end excessive use of pretrial detention.

October 25, 2011
First page of PDF with filename: pretrial-detention-statement-10252011.pdf
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Ethnic Profiling: A Background Paper for the Working Party on Terrorism

As the European Union weighs its counterterrorism policy, the Open Society Foundations have published a background paper on ethnic profiling for the EU Working Party on Terrorism.

June 2011
First page of PDF with filename: ethnic-profiling-background-paper-for-the-working-party-on-terrorism-20110601.pdf
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Pretrial Detention and Torture: Why Pretrial Detainees Face the Greatest Risk

Of the nearly 10 million people detained globally, those held in pretrial detention face the most significant risk of torture and other forms of ill-treatment.

June 2011
First page of PDF with filename: pretrial-detention-and-torture-06222011.pdf
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