OSI-Supported Website Promotes Burma Rights and Democracy
Press Release
August 5, 2005
BurmaGuide.Net aims to aid Burma’s democracy movement by opening channels of communication into one of the world’s most repressive states.  more

eRider Starter Kit
July 2005
A guide to starting, managing, and running projects that provide technical assistance to nonprofits has been released by OSI grantee Tactical Technology Collective. more

Putting the "Human" Back in Human Rights
Gara LaMarche
July 11, 2005
Human rights proponents would do well to remember that the most significant democratic transformations in recent decades were essentially peaceful and led from the bottom up, argued OSI Vice President and Director of U.S. Programs Gara LaMarche in a talk to the International Human Rights Funders Group. more

OSI Forum: Once There Was a Country—Revisiting Haiti
OSI-New York
July 7, 2005
Audio
Video
U.S. poet laureate Dr. Maya Angelou discussed a documentary film that she narrated on the health care crisis in Haiti.  more

Casting Shadows: War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity, 1978-2001
July 2005
An OSI-funded report by the Afghanistan Justice Project documents war crimes by political leaders and armed factions during the war in Afghanistan.  more

OSI Forum: Race and Democracy—Restoring and Increasing Civic Participation
OSI-New York
June 30, 2005
Audio
Part of OSI's Racial Justice series, this panel discussion examined fairness in voting and the electoral process in the United States.  more