This publication comes out of the joint effort of two organizations: the Public Interest Law Institute (PILI) and the Open Society Justice Initiative. 

”Working with the United Nations Human Rights Programme: A Handbook for Civil Society” is a new, user-friendly and authoritative publication on United Nations human rights bodies and mechanisms – explaining how they work and exploring the many important ways that civil society actors including NGOs can contribute to their work.

The Handbook on improving access to legal aid in Africa and the Survey Report on access to legal aid in criminal justice systems in Africa were developed as part of a project to promote access to legal aid in Africa.

This summary document provides an overview of the findings of the first phase of the Legal Services Research Centre’s (LSRC)’ means assessment research project. 

In France, suspects in police detention are assisted mostly by lawyers who are not specialized in criminal law and by stagiaires.

The lesson today — the ins and outs of closing a deal — seems lifted from Corporate Lawyering 101.

For the moment, this is the end of the line for French criminal lawyers who have challenged the new garde à vue regime.

This paper seeks to describe some of the benefits produced by recently conducted legal aid research.

Torture and other ill-treatment are not aberrations; they are common—even routine—in many detention facilities around the world.

Pretrial holding facilities in countries with developing and transitional economies often force detainees to live in filthy, over-crowded conditions, where they lack adequate health services. In the worst cases, detainees die; some centers are so bad that innocent people plead guilty just to be transferred to prisons where the conditions might be better.