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George Soros Pledges to Give $10 Million to Cities to Build Comprehensive Public Drug-Addiction Treatment Systems
Press Release
June 7, 2006
OSI chairman George Soros announces a plan to give $10 million to help eliminate the enormous drug treatment gap in the United States. more

Open Society Institute Announces More Funding for Gulf Coast Post-Katrina
Press Release
May 24, 2006
OSI announces a second round of grants to aid local recovery efforts to strengthen social justice and encourage displaced and low-income residents to participate in shaping public policy. more

OSI Documentary Photography Project Distribution Grant Winners Announced
May 19, 2006
The lingering chaos of the Soviet break-up, the Salvadoran civil war, and the plight of the mentally disabled are just some of the subjects documented by photographers awarded winter 2005 OSI Distribution Grants. more

OSI Forum: Building Stability in Afghanistan
OSI - New York
May 19, 2006
Audio
In this OSI-sponsored presentation, Joanna Nathan, Kabul-based senior analyst for the International Crisis Group, discussed the opening months of Afghanistan's new National Assembly.  more

OSI Forum: In Transit to Nowhere—Personal Accounts of Statelessness in the 21st Century
OSI - New York
May 10, 2006
Audio
The Open Society Justice Initiative presented a panel discussion featuring testimony by stateless people from Kenya, Burma, Pakistan, and the Dominican Republic.  more

Judge Rules in Favor of AOSI, Says USAID Pledge Rule Is Unconstitutional
May 9, 2006
Siding with the Alliance for Open Society International, a U.S. federal judge has ruled unconstitutional a requirement that public health groups sign a pledge "opposing prostitution" in order to receive U.S. funding. more

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Publications

Ethnic Profiling in the Moscow Metro
June 2006
Riders on the Moscow Metro who appear non-Slavic are over twenty times more likely to be stopped by police than those who look Slavic, according to this report by the Open Society Justice Initiative, in partnership with JURIX and Lamberth Consulting. more

Roma Inclusion: Lessons Learned from OSI's Roma Programming
June 2006
Summarizing the experience of OSI and its partners in working with the Roma, this report makes recommendations to help improve the effectiveness of efforts to promote the inclusion of Roma in society. more

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Events

OSI Forum: The End of Interest Group Liberalism?
OSI - New York
July 13, 2006
OSI hosts a discussion featuring observers and activists who have been critical of interest-group pluralism and will explore alternative approaches to building a more just society.  more

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