Publications
Read and download reports, handbooks, briefing papers, legal and policy submissions, and fact sheets from the Open Society Justice Initiative.
From Spectators to Champions: How Supportive States Can Promote Cooperation with the International Criminal Court through Multilateral Bodies
This briefing paper offers recommendations as to how the ICC should approach cooperation challenges, as well as how states that are supportive of its work could leverage multilateral bodies’ support to influence reluctant governments to cooperate with the ICC.
February 28, 2022Holes in the Rights Framework: Racial Discrimination, Citizenship, and the Rights of Noncitizens
Open Society Justice Initiative Executive Director James A. Goldston looks at "the importance of citizenship in making effective the promise of fundamental human rights protection."
October 1, 2006 | James GoldstonHuman Rights and Legal Identity: Approaches to Combating Statelessness and Arbitrary Deprivation of Nationality
This Open Society Justice Initiative publication looks at the contemporary crisis of statelessness and proposes an agenda for action.
May 2006ICC Bemba Appeal
This fact sheet provides background information on the appeal of Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo at the International Criminal Court.
June 2018ICC Katanga Reparations
Judges at the ICC will determine reparations for victims of a brutal massacre that led to the conviction of Germain Katanga.
March 2017ICC Trial: Bemba et al.
Sentences for witness tampering will be delivered at the International Criminal Court, in a case that involved a conspiracy to subvert the course of justice.
March 2017Immunities and a Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine
This briefing paper provides a non-exhaustive overview of the application of immunities to prosecutions for the crime of aggression, particularly to the Russian head of state, head of government, and minister of foreign affairs, before a Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine.
February 01, 2023Improving Implementation and Follow-Up: Treaty Bodies, Special Procedures, and the Universal Periodic Review
Too often the verdicts of international human rights bodies don't find their way into practice. Produced by the Open Society Justice Initiative, the Brookings Institution, and UPR-Watch, this report documents a conference to consider strategies...
March 2011