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. 

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

The paper, created by Mies Westerveld and Tewelde Bahta, tries to assess the relationship between comparative research and legal aid policymaking in the contemporary debates within Dutch society.

The paper reports results from research of justiciable events in Bulgaria, carried out in 2007.

This paper has been produced by Lee Bridges, Ed Cape, Richard Moorhead and Avrom Sherr, a team of independent researchers commissioned by the Legal Services Commission (LSC) to monitor and evaluate the Public Defender Service (PDS) in England and Wales.

The Office E-Manual serves as an electronic handbook and instruction manual for the systems, processes and procedures in place within the offices.

This Model Contract for Public Defense Services is a joint project of the National Legal Aid and Defender Association and the Criminal Courts Technical Assistance Project.