This report explores the challenge of making rights real by examining how human rights decisions and recommendations made by international bodies are implemented at the national level.

Short summaries of key decisions and other developments from national courts relating to accountability for international crimes, from late 2011 to May 2013.

Short summaries of key decisions and other developments relating to international criminal justice taken from May 2012 to March 2013.

James A. Goldston, executive director of the Open Society Justice Initiative, says that the concept of the rule of law can command consensus in a divided world.

It remains doubtful that Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge tribunal will successfully complete its current caseload and make a positive contribution to ending impunity and increasing respect for the rule of law.

Justice is recognized by scholars, practitioners, and governments as having a positive effect on development. This fact sheet outlines how support for justice has aided progress on the current Millennium Development Goals.

Justice is out of reach for too many people, taking a toll on development. This fact sheet makes the case for including a justice goal in the post-2015 development agenda.

Legal arguments at the confirmation of charges hearings at the ICC in the case of Laurent Gbagbo, former president of the Ivory Coast.