Among the many critical choices that Sudan is facing in the context of the referendums on the status of South Sudan and Abyei are the criteria that will be established to determine citizenship of the new entities, argues Bronwen Manby of the Open...

The Open Society Justice Initiative has signed a joint letter to five European justice ministers, urging them to rethink their objections to an initiative that would strengthen arrest rights across the European Union.

The Open Society Justice Initiative and seven other human rights groups have advised the United Kingdom against trying to rush through reforms of the European Court of Human Rights over the next six months, while it holds the chairmanship of the...

Five international and Haitian legal rights groups are urging the Haitian judicial authorities to press criminal charges against the country's former dictator.

A joint letter from 22 organizations supporting freedom of expression, sent to support a Grand Chamber review of the ECHR’s Sinkova v. Ukraine ruling.

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.

A submission by the Open Society Justice Initiative and other human rights groups to the Council of Europe working party on reform of the European human rights system.

16 civil society groups called on the African Commission for Human and Peoples' Rights to work to end excessive use of pretrial detention.