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Torture, Rape, and Killings Pervade Nigerian Policing
Press Release
May 18, 2010
Nigeria's leadership must pay serious attention to police reform if it hopes to succeed in restoring public safety, according to a report released by the Open Society Justice Initiative and the Network on Police Reform in Nigeria.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Better Lives, Fewer Institutions
Judith Klein
June 10, 2010
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In 15 years of working to get people with mental disabilities out of institutions, or preventing them from ever having to enter them, I've become more ambitious. If we can get 10 people out, why not try to close a whole institution and improve hundreds of lives, changing the entire system in the process?
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Moving Walls 17
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The documentary photographs in this OSI exhibition show how power can be used as an impediment to transparency, a mechanism for social control, and a tool for oppression, while also acknowledging the strength and defiance of people who suffer as a result.
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