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Case Digests: International Standards on Ethnic Profiling: Decisions and Comments from the UN system

A review of key legal-standards, including jurisprudence and commentaries, from the UN human rights system on the legal prohibition of ethnic profiling.

November 2016
First page of PDF with filename: Digests-Ethnic Profiling-UN system revised-07.26.16_0.pdf
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Justice Initiatives: Legal Empowerment

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

September 2013
First page of PDF with filename: justice-initiatives-legal-empowerment-20140102.pdf
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Submission to the Universal Periodic Review: Review of Germany

This submission to the Universal Periodic Review of Germany argues that several primary and secondary schools in Berlin are segregating migrant children in separate classes that provide vastly inferior education.

July 2013
First page of PDF with filename: universal-periodic-review-germany-16-session-upr-20130726.pdf
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Joint NGO Statement: Protocol 15 to the European Convention on Human Rights Must Not Result in a Weakening of Human Rights Protection

Ten human rights and law groups are calling on members of the Council of Europe to ensure that a new protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights does not weaken its protections.

June 25, 2013
First page of PDF with filename: echr-protocol15-joint-statement-06272013.pdf
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Case Digests: UN Committee on Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) 2004–12

A summary of decisions and views expressed by CEDAW in the period 2011–2012.

June 2013
First page of PDF with filename: case-digests-cedaw-june-2012-20130619.pdf
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Case Digests: Legal Update on Discrimination

Read summaries of key decisions relating to discrimination, including ethnic profiling, from international and regional courts and tribunals from March 2012 to May 2013.

June 2013
First page of PDF with filename: case-digests-legal-update-discrimination-20130614.pdf
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Ethnic Profiling: Letter from Spain’s Defensora del Pueblo

Recommendations from Spain’s Defensora del Pueblo to the General Directorate of Police at the Ministry of the Interior to address ethnic profiling.

May, 2013
First page of PDF with filename: comunicacion-defensora-pueblo-20130510_0.pdf
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Arguments: New Rules for the Rule of Law

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.

April 25, 2013 | James Goldston
First page of PDF with filename: goldston-aba-ruleoflaw-04242013.pdf
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