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Dominicans of Haitian Descent and the Compromised Right to Nationality

The Open Society Justice Initiative presented this report to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, highlighting systematic discrimination in the Dominican Republic.

October 2010
First page of PDF with filename: Dominican-Republic-Nationality-Report-ENG-20110805.pdf
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The Use of Pretrial Detention in Nuevo León

This Open Society Justice Initiative report examines pretrial detention case processing in Mexico, focusing on the state of Nuevo León.

August 2010 | Miguel La Rota and Katherine Fahrenstock
First page of PDF with filename: prision-preventiva-nuevo-leon-20100825.pdf
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Managing Pretrial Release

This Open Society Justice Initiative monograph discusses how best to manage the pretrial release/detention decision, focusing particularly on pretrial evaluation and supervision services.

August 2010 | Denise Tomasini-Joshi
First page of PDF with filename: managing-pretrial-release-20100825.pdf
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Myths of Pretrial Detention in Mexico

This Open Society Justice Initiative monograph provides a critical analysis of the most common arguments—or myths—used to justify the excessive, inhumane, and irrational use of pretrial detention in Mexico.

August 2010 | Guillermo Zepeda Lecuona
First page of PDF with filename: mitos-mexico-20100801.pdf
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Effective Criminal Defence in Europe

This report summarizes the findings of a research project that explores and compares access to effective defense in criminal proceedings across nine European jurisdictions.

June 2010 | Ed Cape, Roger Smith, and Taru Spronken
First page of PDF with filename: criminal-defence-europe-summary.pdf
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Criminal Force: Torture, Abuse, and Extrajudicial Killings by the Nigeria Police Force

Police in Nigeria commit extrajudicial violence and extortion with relative impunity, according to this report by the Open Society Justice Initiative and the Network on Police Reform in Nigeria.

May 2010
First page of PDF with filename: criminal-force-20100519.pdf
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More Candour about Criteria: The Exercise of Discretion by the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court

Much unease about the International Criminal Court boils down to one issue: how should the prosecutor decide, among thousands of crimes and perpetrators within his jurisdiction, which ones to charge? Open Society Justice Initiative executive...

April 23, 2010 | James Goldston
First page of PDF with filename: goldston-criteria-20100423.pdf
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Strengthening the Nexus Between International Criminal Justice and National Capacity to Combat Impunity

This article contains remarks delivered by Open Society Justice Initiative Executive Director James A. Goldston at a panel discussion on complementarity at UN Headquarters on April 9, 2010.

April 9, 2010 | James Goldston
First page of PDF with filename: goldston-complementarity-20100409.pdf
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