Kazakhstan Torture Case Reaches UN
Press Release
April 22, 2010
The Open Society Justice Initiative has filed a complaint before the United Nations Committee Against Torture, alleging that Kazakhstan has failed to prevent, investigate, or punish torture by police in the case of Alexander Gerasimov.

Fighting Impunity in Guatemala: The Experience of CICIG
April 20, 2010
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Featured at this Open Society Institute event is Carlos Castresana, the Spanish prosecutor who currently leads the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG), an unprecedented entity that seeks to assist Guatemalan institutions in investigating and ultimately dismantling domestic illegal security apparatuses and clandestine security organizations.

Foundation Announces 2010 Soros Justice Fellows
Press Release
April 14, 2010
The Open Society Institute awarded $1.4 million to a group of extraordinary scholars, lawyers, advocates, and journalists working to tackle deep-rooted problems in the U.S. justice system.

Talking Texas Tough
OSI-New York
April 14, 2010
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At this Open Society Institute event, Soros Justice Fellow Robert Perkinson and other experts discuss the life and times of America's largest and roughest penal system.

Dispatch from Kyrgyzstan
April 9, 2010
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Speaking by telephone from Bishkek, Kumar Bekbolotov, executive director of the Soros Foundation–Kyrgyzstan, described the events of April 7—the swelling crowds, the looted businesses, and the popular grief following the killings.

Education: A Way Forward
George Soros
April 8, 2010
To avoid a permanent underclass in Europe, the Roma must have access to better education, says George Soros in this address to the Second European Roma Summit.

Peace vs. Human Rights? Implications for a Peace Settlement with the Taliban
U.S. Institute of Peace, Washington, D.C.
April 1, 2010
 VIDEO  
Cohosted by the Open Society Institute and the United States Institute of Peace, this event looks at the implications of efforts to engage elements of the insurgency in negotiations, reconciliation, and reintegration.

Ending Europe's Exclusion of Roma
Nicolas Beger and Heather Grabbe
April 1, 2010
The European Union must do more to develop a comprehensive framework strategy for Roma people, writes Nicolas Beger of Amnesty International and Heather Grabbe of the Open Society Institute.