Publications
Read and download reports, handbooks, briefing papers, legal and policy submissions, and fact sheets from the Open Society Justice Initiative.
Eroding Trust: The UK’s Prevent Counter-Extremism Strategy in Health and Education
Since 2015, the UK’s counter-extremism strategy has imposed a statutory duty on health and education professionals to report individuals at risk of being drawn into terrorism.
October 2016Ethnic Profiling in the European Union: Pervasive, Ineffective, and Discriminatory
Pervasive use of ethnic and religious stereotypes by law enforcement across Europe is harming efforts to combat crime and terrorism, according to this report released by the Open Society Justice Initiative.
May 2009Ethnic Profiling in the Moscow Metro
Riders on the Moscow Metro who appear non-Slavic are over twenty times more likely to be stopped by police than those who look Slavic, according to this report by the Open Society Justice Initiative, in partnership with JURIX and Lamberth Consulting.
June 2006Ethnic Profiling: A Background Paper for the Working Party on Terrorism
As the European Union weighs its counterterrorism policy, the Open Society Foundations have published a background paper on ethnic profiling for the EU Working Party on Terrorism.
June 2011Fact Sheet on Ethnic Profiling in Europe
This fact sheet, prepared by European Network Against Racism and the Open Society Institute, explains the practice of ethnic profiling across Europe.
October 2009Fact Sheet: Children’s Right to a Nationality
This fact sheet explains the causes and consequences of statelessness for children around the world.
June 2011Fact Sheet: Democratic Republic of Congo Mobile Gender Courts
The Open Society Justice Initiative has helped set up mobile gender justice courts aimed at combating rape and other abuses in remote areas of the DRC.
July 19, 2011Fact Sheet: How Pretrial Detention Stunts Socioeconomic Development
The excessive and arbitrary use of pretrial detention critically undermines socioeconomic development—and is especially harmful to the poor.
February 2013