Sandra Coliver is the Senior Legal Officer for Freedom of Information and Expression at the Open Society Justice Initiative, an operational unit of the Open Society Institute. Previously, she served as Director of the Center for Justice & Accountability, which tracks down human rights abusers who come to the US, brings civil lawsuits against them, and tries to get them criminally prosecuted. For more than two decades, she has managed or participated in human rights and rule of law programs in Central and Eastern Europe, Africa and Asia, including three years (1996-98) based in Bosnia. As the first Law Programme Director of Article 19, the Global Campaign for Free Expression (1990-95) she helped develop the Johannesburg Principles on National Security, Freedom of Expression and Access to Information, and edited or co-authored five books on freedom of expression and information issues.
