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"I Can Stop and Search Whoever I Want"—Police Stops of Ethnic Minorities in Bulgaria, Hungary and Spain

Combining statistics, first-person accounts, and policy recommendations, this Open Society Justice Initiative book makes clear that ethnic profiling occurs in all three countries and is ineffective in combating crime.

April 2007
First page of PDF with filename: profiling_20070419.pdf
Fact Sheet

2014–2019: Strengthening Arrest Rights in the European Union

This fact sheet sets out the remaining priorities for development of E.U.-wide standards on arrest and criminal procedural rights.

November 2013 | Kersty McCourt
First page of PDF with filename: factsheet-strengthening-defence-rights-eu-11212013.pdf
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2018 Global Human Rights Litigation Report

Summaries of over 60 strategic litigation rulings in cases undertaken by the Open Society Justice Initiative to defend and strengthen human rights around the world.

April 2018
First page of PDF with filename: litigation-global-report-20180428.pdf
Report

2021 Global Human Rights Litigation Report

Summaries of over 60 strategic litigation rulings in cases undertaken by the Open Society Justice Initiative to defend and strengthen human rights around the world.

June 22, 2021
First page of PDF with filename: litigation-global-report-06222021.pdf
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2024 Global Human Rights Litigation Report

Read highlights of litigation undertaken by the Open Society Justice Initiative, plus a representative selection of cases illustrating the depth and range of its global litigation work on human rights and international humanitarian law.

February, 2024
First page of PDF with filename: ji-litigation-2024-report.pdf
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A Community-Based Practitioner’s Guide: Documenting Citizenship and Other Forms of Legal Identity

This guide provides instructions on how to establish a community-based paralegal program to help people document citizenship and other forms of legal identity.

June 2018
First page of PDF with filename: a-community-based-practitioners-guide-documenting-citizenship-and-other-forms-of-legal-identity-20180627.pdf
Fact Sheet

A Quasi – Experimental Impact Evaluation of a Criminal Justice Paralegal Program in Sierra Leone

A pilot paralegal program launched by Timap for Justice and the Open Society Justice Initiative is providing access to justice to those detained at police stations and prisons in rural Sierra Leone.

December 2010
First page of PDF with filename: pretrial-csae-research-overview-20120710.pdf
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A Toolkit for Drafting Complaints to the United Nations Human Rights Committee and Committee Against Torture

This manual for human rights activists and lawyers seeks to develop their skills in using litigation as one of the tools to combat torture, cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment and punishment.

April 2018
First page of PDF with filename: litigation-toolkit-torture-20180427.pdf
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