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The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights yesterday affirmed in substantial part its first-ever finding of racial discrimination in breach of the European Convention of Human Rights, according to the Open Society Justice Initiative.

Georgia’s first public defender office will provide legal aid for criminal defendants unable to afford a lawyer thanks to a pilot program established with technical assistance from the Open Society Justice Initiative and others.

The United Nations Human Rights Committee has ruled that Angola violated the freedom of expression of a journalist, who was jointly represented by Interights and the Open Society Justice Initiative before the committee.

War criminal and former Liberian president Charles Taylor cannot remain in Nigeria if he is shown to have interfered in Liberian and regional politics, a representative of Nigeria’s government said at an OSI-sponsored event at the UN.

Romania took an important step toward greater transparency of government advertising through public spending reforms developed in consultation with the Open Society Justice Initiative and other media freedom groups.

The Open Society Justice Initiative, together with partners in a number of African countries, is undertaking a survey of the state of the law.

Rachel Neild of the Open Society Justice Initiative briefed the UN Congress on the results of an experiment to bring Peru's police closer to the citizenry.

The Open Society Justice Initiative submitted an amicus curiae brief with the Inter-American Court of Human Rights to uphold the international prohibition on racial discrimination in access to nationality.

Sixteen European civil society organizations joined the Open Society Justice Initiative yesterday in calling on the Council of Europe to adopt a new binding instrument entrenching the right to access information throughout Europe.

A UN donor conference secured pledges of US $38.48 million towards the establishment of the long awaited Khmer Rouge Tribunal, a cause championed by the Open Society Justice Initiative.

OSI's Justice Initiative and seven other human rights organizations sent an open letter to the UN Secretary-General and the members of the UN Security Council, urging a more robust resolution to end the violence in Darfur, Sudan.

The Second European Access to Justice Forum, organized by the Open Society Justice Initiative and the Public Interest Law Initiative, met to discuss the need to reform legal aid systems.

The Open Society Justice Initiative and three partner organizations Tuesday urged the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to uphold the right to information in a case against Chile.

This week, the European Court of Human Rights will hear arguments in two of the most important cases in its history concerning racial violence and discrimination against Roma, according to the Open Society Justice Initiative.

A workshop convened by the Open Society Justice Initiative will examine police discrimination against minorities in five European countries and Russia.

The misuse of state resources in Russian election campaigns was the subject of a report prepared by the Open Society Justice Initiative and the Center for Anti-Corruption Research.

A new law in Lithuania establishes countrywide system of legal assistance for the poor, according to the Open Society Justice Initiative.

The protection of children's rights in Kazakhstan's criminal justice system was the subject of a workshop held by the Open Society Justice Initiative and its Kazakhstan-based partners.

To help protect the rights of pretrial detainees in Nigeria, the Nigerian Legal Aid Council, in collaboration with the Open Society Justice Initiative, launched the Nigerian Legal Aid & Pretrial Detention Project.

In a letter to the UN, six human rights groups, including the Open Society Justice Initiative, called for the creation of an international commission of experts to review the prosecution of serious human rights violations committed in Timor-Leste.