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The European Court of Human Rights has confirmed its landmark ruling that Poland illegally allowed the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency to operate a secret torture prison on its territory in 2002 and 2003.

The Open Society Justice Initiative is urging the Mexican government to respond positively to a highly critical international assessment of its response to a continuing epidemic of enforced disappearances.

The European Court of Human Rights has taken up a complaint filed by the family of Sergei Magnitsky, the whistle-blowing Russian lawyer who died in 2009 while in pre-trial detention.

The Open Society Foundations welcome UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s call for justice to feature as an essential element of the next global sustainable development agenda.

A bid by the constitutional court of the Dominican Republic to repudiate the jurisdiction of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights undermines legal protections for all.

A settlement in the first U.S. anti-kleptocracy case to target the family of a sitting head of state will yield $30 for people of Equatorial Guinea.

The ruling in Etxebarria Caballero v. Spain emphasizes the obligations states have to protect suspects in police stations from torture and ill-treatment.

The conviction on of the two most senior surviving leaders of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge regime marks a historic milestone both for international justice, and for Cambodia’s effort to confront its violent past.

Civil society groups are calling on the U.S. to exercise caution over a possible anti-corruption settlement with Teodorin Nguema Obiang of Equatorial Guinea.

The European Court of Human Rights became the first court to publicly confirm the existence of the so-called “black site” secret prisons operated by the CIA in Europe after the September 11 attacks on the United States.

A new report says reforms at Guatemala’s Public Ministry have resulted in “a significant improvement in criminal prosecutions."

The regional human rights court has rebuked the government of President Yahya Jammeh of the Gambia over the killing of Deyda Hydara in 2004.

A new citizenship law in the Dominican Republic fails to fully remedy the consequences of a ruling by the country’s Constitutional Tribunal on the legal status of Dominicans of Haitian descent.

H.R., a survivor of a 2005 massacre in Andijan, Uzbekistan, that left hundreds dead, has submitted a complaint before the UN Human Rights Committee against the government for subjecting him to torture and illegal detention in 2004 and failing to properly investigate the violence that took place in 2005.

Almost two thirds of those interviewed in a new opinion survey believe the identity checks by French police and gendarmerie involve ethnic profiling.

The Open Society Justice Initiative has filed Freedom of Information requests over Denmark’s role in the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, an American citizen, in a CIA drone strike in 2011.

A new report highlights progress made by Guatemala's Public Ministry under Attorney General Claudia Paz y Paz, now seeking a second term in office.

A Spanish legal resident has filed a complaint before Spain’s Ministry of Interior alleging he was racially profiled by Spain’s National Police.

A government proposal would allow British citizens to be made stateless, undermining an important principle of international law.

The UK should reject a government proposal that would allow British citizens to be made stateless, undermining an important principle of international law.