Tools for Managers, Practitioners and Researchers
Tools for Managers, Practitioners and Researchers
This section includes papers, reports, studies and tools for management, legal aid providers and research instrument.
Legal Tools: International Standards on Criminal Defence Rights
03.05.2013 Tools for Managers, Practitioners and Researchers
This document is part of the Open Society Justice Initiative's Arrest Rights Toolkit, a resource for criminal lawyers, prosecutors, judges, and police—all those who play a role in ensuring that the rights of people accused of crimes are respected.
Legal Tools: European Standards on Criminal Defence Rights
02.05.2013 Tools for Managers, Practitioners and Researchers
This document is part of the Open Society Justice Initiative's Arrest Rights Toolkit, a resource for criminal lawyers, prosecutors, judges, and police—all those who play a role in ensuring that the rights of people accused of crimes are respected.
The Open Society Justice Initiative believes that litigation can be used to reinforce the fundamental human rights that underpin an open and just society.
Legal Tools: An Arrest Rights Toolkit for Lawyers
24.04.2013 Tools for Managers, Practitioners and Researchers
The first few hours after arrest are crucial.
The World Report is Human Rights Watch’s twenty-third annual review of human rights practices around the globe. It summarizes key human rights issues in more than 90 countries and territories worldwide, drawing on events from the end of 2011 through November 2012.
Accessing Justice: Models, Strategies and Best Practices on Women's Empowerment
06.03.2013 Tools for Managers, Practitioners and Researchers
The present study highlights the critical role legal empowerment strategies can play in changing and challenging oppressive gender relations that are justified under the name of culture.
Policy Paper on the Rights of the Child in Europe
05.12.2012 Tools for Managers, Practitioners and Researchers
With the recent undertaking of the Presidency of the Council of the European Union by the Republic of Cyprus, it is crucial, as an independent Cyprus-based institution founded on the values and principles that endorse children’s rights
World’s models of legal aid for criminal cases: What can Russia borrow?
07.06.2012 Tools for Managers, Practitioners and Researchers
This research work focuses on the question of what are the main objectives and priority avenues for reforming the Russian system for provision of state-funded legal aid in criminal cases and whether the best international experience in this field can be adopted in Russia.
Protecting the right to a fair trial under the European Convention on Human Rights
29.05.2012 Tools for Managers, Practitioners and Researchers
The Council of Europe issued a new human rights handbook, Protecting the right to a fair trial under the European Convention on Human Rights.
ABA ROLI publishes Access to Justice Assessment Tool
24.05.2012 Tools for Managers, Practitioners and Researchers
After two years of development and pilot testing the American Bar Association’s Rule of Law Initiative published its Access to Justice Assessment Tool.