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Scenes from our September 24 event on implementation of Goal 16 of the new UN Sustainable Development Goals, “Delivering on the Promise of Goal 16″. Top: Panelists (L to R) Christiaan Rebergen, Director General of International Cooperation, Netherlands; Erna Witoelar, Founder, Partnership for Governance Reform, Indonesia (concealed); Roy Austin Jr., Deputy Assistant to the President of the United States for Urban Affairs, Justice and Opportunity; Nomboniso Maqubela, Director, National Alliance of Community Advice Centres, South Africa: Augustus Ngafuan, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Liberia; Roberto Dondisch, Director-General for Global Issues, Mexico; Amitabh Behar, Executive Director, National Foundation for India; and presenter Zain Verjee. Lower: US United Nations ambassador Samantha Powers; Development economist Amartya Sen and Betsy Apple, head of advocacy for the Open Society Justice Initiative. #Goal16 #GlobalGoals

From the January 13 hearing at the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the European Union of Nikolova v. CEZ, concerning discrimination against a Roma community in Bulgaria in the placing of electricity meters. The case at the CEU in Luxembourg (top) was presented by our lawyers Simon Cox (2) and Maxim Ferschtman (who also took the photos), together with our board member Yonko Grosev (bottom).

View from the office, looking down Broadway. Tuesday, January 21, at 3.30pm.

AG RESPOND to Petition122/2013 by #PEV SGBV Survivors.DON'T ignore sexual violence in conflict!ACT NOW!#SGBVjusticeKE http://thndr.it/19unaGy

A senior Dutch police officer answers questions at an event in Amsterdam organised by Amnesty International in their campaign against police ethnic profiling on 28th November 2013. The event featured film testimony and portrait photos shot by photographer Ed Kashi, for our joint report on the issue with Amnesty Equality under Pressure: the Impact of Ethnic Profiling.

European Court of Human Rights, December 3, 2013: Mikołaj Pietrzak and Amrit Singh preparing to present in al-Nashiri v Poland.

European Court of Human Rights, December 3, 2013: Legal team for al-Nashiri v Poland. Left to right: Rupert Skilbeck, Nancy Hollander, Mikołaj Pietrzak and Amrit Singh.

Almost 300 people attended symposium on racism and discrimination in German Schools, organized by the Open Society Justice Initiative together with the Migrationsrat Berlin-Brandenburg and the Office of the Commissioner for Integration, District Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Berlin. November 1, 2013.

Karamba Diaby (SPD), Germany's first African-born member of the Bundestag, speaks out against discrimination in German schools at Schöneberg Rathaus, Berlin, October 31, 2013.

#Karamba Diaby

JFK spoke at the Schöneberg Rathaus....as did comedian Gilet Ayse. Standing up for Equality in German Schools. Berlin, October 31, 2013

#Gilet Ayse

Berlin, October 31: Launch event for Standing up for Equality in German Schools report and exhibit with photos by Marc MacAndrews at Schöneberg Rathaus.

#Marc MadAndrews

Paris, July 3, 2013: the scene after a civil court heard arguments from lawyers representing 13 young men, who are seeking damages after being singled out by French police for identity checks because of the way they look.

July 3, 2013: Court hearing in Paris on ethnic profiling complaint filed by thirteen young French men from ethnic minority backgrounds.

Rios Montt genocide trial: querrellantes (civil parties), lawyers and survivors in a press conference this morning at Pan-American Hotel, Guatemala City, Guatemala. Follow the trial from Tuesday at www.riosmontt-trial.org

The legal team in Nairobi on Feb 20 filing case against Attorney-General and others over the sexual and gender based violence in 2007/8.

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