Report

Scorecard on Hate Crime Response in the OSCE Region: Gaps in Data Collection and Responses

July 9, 2018

 

Hate crimes undermine social cohesion, basic guarantees of security, and the democratic ideals of equality and non-discrimination. When a Muslim woman is attacked for…

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Ailing Justice: Texas. Soaring Immigration Detention, Shrinking Due Process

June 14, 2018

Key Findings:

Many immigrants in Texas, including asylum seekers, remain in unnecessary, lengthy, and prolonged detention—sometimes for well over one year. Among those in prolonged detention:…

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Hungary’s False Sense of Security

June 9, 2018

Introduction Leaders of Hungarian civil society are appealing to the U.S. government to counter Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s accelerated assault on peaceful dissent, anti-corruption activism,…

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Ailing Justice—New Jersey: Inadequate Healthcare, Indifference, and Indefinite Confinement in Immigration Detention

February 27, 2018

 

Every year, the U.S. government locks up hundreds of thousands of immigrants despite the existence of effective—and cost-effective—alternative-to-detention programs. Detention itself can be traumatizing,…

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Punishing Refugees and Migrants: The Trump Administration’s Misuse of Criminal Prosecutions

January 18, 2018

As the world continues to face the largest displacement crisis since World War II, President Trump’s first year in office has been marked by xenophobic,…

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Democracy in Danger

December 8, 2017

 

The 2013-14 Euromaidan protests brought down the corrupt government of President Viktor Yanukovych and offered Ukrainians the prospect a brighter and freer future. Four…

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Titled Justice: Backlogs Grow While Fairness Shrinks in U.S. Immigration Courts

October 17, 2017

The backlog in the U.S. immigration courts has reached an all-time high, with 632,261 cases pending as of August 2017. In some of the…

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Judge and Jailer: Asylum Seekers Denied Parole in Wake of Trump Executive Order

September 29, 2017

On January 25, 2017, President Donald Trump issued an executive order directing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to allocate “all legally available resources” to…

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