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This video, produced by Rights International Spain and the Open Society Foundations, explores the lived realities of racialized individuals in Spain.

Trial monitors play an important role in keeping the public informed of events in the courtroom. The Justice Initiative’s Monitoring Atrocity Crimes Trials: A Guide, offers clear guidance on what to monitor and how to convey important information.

A trial judge’s power to review a prosecutor’s decision to drop criminal charges is a lynchpin of the democratic principle of equality under the law. The U.S. Court of Appeals ruling on the Michael Flynn case has failed to uphold it.

As Sierra Leone works to contain the pandemic, there has not yet been a proper reckoning for the high-level corruption that tainted the country's ultimately successful battle against Ebola.

Thousands of Venezuelan migrants attempting to return to their home country remain stranded along the Colombia-Venezuela border during the COVID-19 pandemic, in a glaring example of how States are falling short of their international obligations.

Ending the police's use of racially-biased facial recognition technology temporarily or forever will not solve the full scale of the global surveillance problem around the world.

Should the U.S. Congress continue to bailout airline executives and shareholders, it must do so without compounding our environmental crisis for decades to come.

As COVID-19 continues its deadly march around the globe, with the lives of incarcerated persons hanging on the line. Yet future deaths of incarcerated persons are still avoidable. The clock is ticking, and decision-makers must act now.

Yearly toxic smog from tropical forest and peatland fires in Indonesia, which spill into Malaysia and Singapore, could exacerbate the COVID-19 pandemic. The government and agri-businesses must change course now to avert this manufactured disaster.

A recent judgement by Germany's top labor court is expected to end a decades old court battle over headscarf bans for teachers.

A new U.S. Department of Homeland Security biometric database is projected to contain information on hundreds of millions of people by 2022 and represents an alarming development to scale up the agency's surveillance and information-sharing ability.

There are reasonable grounds to suspect that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin-Salman was involved in the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The U.K. government must now use its new "Magnitsky" sanctions regime to hold him accountable.

In one African country after another, the encounter between judicial independence and viral authoritarianism is reconfiguring the frontiers of what government can or cannot do, one ruling at a time.

The next OPCW Conference of the States Parties provides states a new window of opportunity to give hope to Syrian victims seeking justice.

The EU says its latest report on the rule of law will be a preventive tool to “ensure there is no backsliding,” but many have their doubts. Now, members of civil society are calling for swift action.

A case currently before the U.S. Supreme Court could decide whether children formerly held as slaves can hold U.S. corporations accountable for human rights violations perpetrated abroad.

The guide is a practical resource intended for civil legal service providers around the world, especially rural areas, where in-person meetings have often been challenging, even before the COVID-19 crisis.

Under international law, vaccinating prison populations against COVID-19 is an obligation that falls to the government—and because they are particularly at risk, incarcerated persons should be among the first groups to be vaccinated.