Derechos: Human Rights Listings

The Open Society Mental Health Initiative (MHI) is a part of the Public Health Program of the Open Society Institute (OSI), based in Budapest. OSI is a private operating and grant making foundation which aims to shape public policy, to promote democratic governance, human rights, and economic, legal, and social reform. On a local level, OSI implements a range of initiatives to support the rule of law, education, public health, and independent media. At the same time, OSI works to build alliances across borders and continents on issues such as combating corruption and rights abuses.

“Wanted for War Crimes”

The Aegis Trust is seeking to recruit two new positions for a new programme – ‘Wanted for War Crimes’. The 3 year programme is funded by the European Union and will pay competitive salaries. The positions are based in London with extensive travel overseas.

The Programme

The programme has two objectives:

1. The primary objective is to create a network of NGOs, investigators, lawyers and other groups willing to share information and evidence about people suspected of war crimes, torture, crimes against humanity or genocide; helping to build prima-facie cases against a suspect so that national police and investigators can quickly obtain an arrest warrant or make an extradition request.