Publications
Read and download reports, handbooks, briefing papers, legal and policy submissions, and fact sheets from the Open Society Justice Initiative.
Addressing Children's Right to Nationality
This Open Society Justice Initiative document makes the case that the UN must clarify the obligation that governments bear for stateless children.
February 2011 | Sebastian KohnInternational Law and the Right to Nationality in Sudan
Among the many critical choices that Sudan is facing in the context of the referendums on the status of South Sudan and Abyei are the criteria that will be established to determine citizenship of the new entities, argues Bronwen Manby of the Open...
February 2011 | Bronwen ManbyPutting Complementarity into Practice
This Open Society Justice Initiative report addresses major hurdles to prosecuting international crimes in the context of three countries: Kenya, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
January 2011 | Eric WittePromoting Complementarity
The Open Society Justice Initiative is committed to working with states to promote International Criminal Court-proscribed complementarity in practice. Toward this end, OSI provides recommendations for the Assembly of States Parties.
December 10, 2010Recent Developments at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia: December 2010
This Open Society Justice Initiative report examines recent progress made by the Khmer Rouge Tribunal, and political obstacles to its work.
December 2010From Judgment to Justice: Implementing International and Regional Human Rights Decisions
This report by the Open Society Justice Initiative reviews the implementation of judgments across the world's four human rights systems.
November 2010 | David C. BaluarteSalvaging Judicial Independence: The Need for a Principled Completion Plan for the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia
This Open Society Justice Initiative report focuses on plans for the conclusion of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal.
November 2010Dominicans 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