This guide provides instructions on how to establish a community-based paralegal program to help people document citizenship and other forms of legal identity.

At the first All-Africa Colloquium on Clinical Legal Education, organized by the Open Society Justice Initiative, legal clinicians and university faculty from all over the continent came together to examine the function of legal clinics and...

The costs of pretrial detention in Mexico are painfully high—for the state and its citizens in general, and for detainees and their families in particular.

This report summarizes the sessions and discussions that took place at an Africa regional retreat, held in Johannesburg, South Africa, of the Global Campaign for Pretrial Justice.

This publication takes stock of the growth and change in the field of human rights implementation, and how to ensure legal decisions can be realized.

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.

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

Eight case studies look at how legal empowerment projects can reduce poverty and help people realize their rights; with a forward by George Soros.