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This how-to guide provides information on all aspects of establishing and operating a community-based paralegal program, from assessing a community’s needs to training paralegals and resolving justice problems.

A pilot paralegal program launched by Timap for Justice and the Open Society Justice Initiative is providing access to justice to those detained at police stations and prisons in rural Sierra Leone.

The excessive use of pretrial detention poses a great risk to public health and human rights. And, as this fact sheet outlines, the health risks affect not only those detained but also societies at large.

This report by the Open Society Justice Initiative reviews the implementation of judgments across the world's four human rights systems.

This Open Society Justice Initiative report focuses on plans for the conclusion of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal.

The Open Society Justice Initiative presented this report to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, highlighting systematic discrimination in the Dominican Republic.

This Open Society Justice Initiative briefing paper provides background on the UNESCO-Obiang Prize and problems with corruption and abuse in Equatorial Guinea.

This Open Society Justice Initiative report highlights the most significant challenges facing the Khmer Rouge Tribunal: political interference, a failure to adequately address corruption, and fundraising.

This Open Society Justice Initiative report examines pretrial detention case processing in Mexico, focusing on the state of Nuevo León.

This Open Society Justice Initiative monograph discusses how best to manage the pretrial release/detention decision, focusing particularly on pretrial evaluation and supervision services.

This Open Society Justice Initiative monograph provides a critical analysis of the most common arguments—or myths—used to justify the excessive, inhumane, and irrational use of pretrial detention in Mexico.

This Open Society Justice Initiative report focuses on the judicial independence of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal, and how political interference is threatening the court's work.

This book examines the impact of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in Bosnia and includes lessons to improve future efforts to provide justice for survivors of atrocious crimes.

This report summarizes the findings of a research project that explores and compares access to effective defense in criminal proceedings across nine European jurisdictions.

Police in Nigeria commit extrajudicial violence and extortion with relative impunity, according to this report by the Open Society Justice Initiative and the Network on Police Reform in Nigeria.

Much unease about the International Criminal Court boils down to one issue: how should the prosecutor decide, among thousands of crimes and perpetrators within his jurisdiction, which ones to charge? Open Society Justice Initiative executive...

This article contains remarks delivered by Open Society Justice Initiative Executive Director James A. Goldston at a panel discussion on complementarity at UN Headquarters on April 9, 2010.

This paper focuses on Timap for Justice, a pioneering organization expanding access to legal services in rural areas of Sierra Leone. This updated edition includes a new foreword by George Soros.

This report highlights the most significant challenges facing the Khmer Rouge Tribunal: political interference, a failure to adequately address corruption, and fundraising.

Equatorial Guinea is one of the world's wealthiest nations, yet the country's citizens live in desperate poverty. This OSI paper raises the question: if money from the sale of natural resources isn't benefiting its citizens, where is it going?