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Case Digests: UN Committee against Torture, November 2008 and May 2009

Read short summaries of the decisions and views which the UN Committee against Torture took on individual communications at its 41st and 42nd sessions, held respectively in November 2008 and May 2009.

September 04, 2012
First page of PDF with filename: litigation-digest-CAT4142-12-09-04.pdf
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Case Digests: UN Committee against Torture, November 2009 and May 2010

Read short summaries of the decisions and views which the UN Committee against Torture took at its 43rd and 44th sessions, held respectively in November 2009 and May 2010.

September 04, 2012
First page of PDF with filename: litigation-digest-CAT4344-12-09-04.pdf
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Case Digests: UN Human Rights Committee 100th Session, October 2010

The Open Society Justice Initiative has prepared short summaries of the decisions on admissibility and merits taken by the UN Human Rights Committee at its 100th session, held in October 2010.

September 04, 2012
First page of PDF with filename: litigation-digest-HRC100-12-09-04.pdf
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Case Digests: UN Human Rights Committee 102nd Session, July 2011

Read summaries of the decisions on admissibility and merits taken by the UN Human Rights Committee at its 102nd session, held in July 2011.

March 2012
First page of PDF with filename: case-digest-HRC102-120914.pdf
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Civil Society and the Copenhagen Declaration on Reform of the European Court of Human Rights

Remarks delivered by James A. Goldston, executive director of the Open Society Justice Initiative, on the response of civil society to Denmark's proposed reforms of the European Court of Human Rights.

April 11, 2018 | James Goldston
First page of PDF with filename: james-goldston-remarks-on-copenhagen-declaration-on-reform-of-the-echr-20180411.pdf
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Clinical Legal Education Training Materials

Curriculum materials on how to teach clinical legal education and street law, and how to operate a university-based clinic are now available from the Open Society Justice Initiative.

February 7, 2006
First page of PDF with filename: clinic_20070206.pdf
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Community-Based Paralegals: A Practitioner’s Guide

This how-to guide provides information on all aspects of establishing and operating a community-based paralegal program, from assessing a community’s needs to training paralegals and resolving justice problems.

December 2010
First page of PDF with filename: OSJI-Paralegal-Manual-US-11-05-2014.pdf
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European Court Reform: National Implementation of the Interlaken Declaration

This briefing presents the views of civil society on the the implementation of rulings of the European Court of Human Rights in seven states: the Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Moldova, Poland, Russia, and Ukraine.

October 2012
First page of PDF with filename: echr-reform-implementation-10232012.pdf
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