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In 2010, more than 70 people were killed in two bomb attacks in Kampala, Uganda. The subsequent counterrorism response has included unlawful renditions, arbitrary detention and the physical abuse of suspects.

Organizations across the region are working to combat excessive pretrial detention. Find out where and how.

We seek to document what happens when pretrial justice systems fail, and to develop and share cost-effective ways to get them working.

This briefing presents the views of civil society on the the implementation of rulings of the European Court of Human Rights in seven states: the Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Moldova, Poland, Russia, and Ukraine.

This submission to the 106th session of the UN Human Rights Committee argues that several primary and secondary schools in Berlin are segregating migrant children into classes that provide vastly inferior education.

The Open Society Justice Initiative is proposing steps to the members of the International Criminal Court that would strengthen their ability to try international crimes domestically.

A summary of inquiries into human rights abuses linked to the CIA’s program of “extraordinary renditions” of terrorism suspects, launched after September 11, 2001.

This report examines the legal issues at stake in the continuing political struggle over the jurisdiction of the Khmer Rouge tribunal in Cambodia.

The UN Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor estimates that four billion people live outside the protection of the law. The Open Society Foundations are working to strengthen and expand access to the law for all.

Read summaries of the decisions on admissibility and merits taken by the UN Human Rights Committee at its 102nd session, held in July 2011.

Read summaries of decisions on admissibility and merits taken by the UN Human Rights Committee during its 101st session in March 2011.

The Open Society Justice Initiative has prepared short summaries of the decisions on admissibility and merits taken by the UN Human Rights Committee at its 100th session, held in October 2010.

Read short summaries of the decisions and views which the UN Committee against Torture took on individual communications at its 41st and 42nd sessions, held respectively in November 2008 and May 2009.

Read short summaries of the decisions and views which the UN Committee against Torture took at its 43rd and 44th sessions, held respectively in November 2009 and May 2010.

Read summaries of decisions and views which the UN Committee against Torture took on individual communications at its 45th session in November 2010.

The Open Society Justice Initiative is calling on the European Union to raise the torture and imprisonment of Azimjan Askarov, a prominent human rights defender in talks with Kyrgyzstan in September.

This working paper sets out Open Society Foundations’ vision of how legal empowerment can support development and justice by ensuring that the law is not confined to books or courtrooms, but is available to everyone.

Mobile gender courts have brought a measure of justice—and dignity—to rape victims and demonstrate that, with modest support, local institutions can respond even under the most challenging circumstances.

Short summaries of decisions and views which the UN Committee against Torture took on individual communications at its 47th session in November 2011.