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Moving Walls 17
slideshow SLIDESHOW  
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.

 

Protecting Civil Society in Latin America
Vonda Brown
June 23, 2010
blog BLOG  
An alarming attempt to curb the activities of independent civil society groups in Latin America was prevented, thanks to the efforts of human rights advocates from across the hemisphere.

Torture's Hidden Victims
Kersty McCourt
June 24, 2010
blog BLOG  
Millions of ordinary people accused of petty crimes comprise the majority of the world's pretrial detainees—and in many countries they are routinely and systematically subjected to torture.

 

Digital Activism Decoded: The New Mechanics of Change
June 2010
Published by the International Debate Education Association, a grantee of the Open Society Institute, this book focuses on the use of digital technologies to push for social and political change.

Call for Proposals: Global Drug Policy Program
Deadline: October 1, 2010
The Open Society Institute welcomes drug policy related proposals from a broad range of institutions working in fields such as economics, policy, public health, human rights, and the media.

Call for Proposals: Moving Walls 18 Documentary Photography Exhibition
April 5, 2010
The Open Society Institute invites photographers and artists to submit a proposal and completed body of work for consideration in the Moving Walls 18 group exhibition.

Call for Proposals: Documentary Photography Audience Engagement Grant
Deadline: July 23, 2010
The Open Society Institute Documentary Photography Project offers support for alternative models of presenting and disseminating documentary photography to the public.

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Fighting Impunity in Guatemala: The Experience of CICIG
April 20, 2010
slideshow AUDIO
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.

10 Tactics for Turning Information into Action
OSI-New York
March 1, 2010
slideshow AUDIO
Sam Gregory of WITNESS and other rights advocates discuss original and artful ways to capture attention and communicate a cause.

The Battle Ahead: Climate Change After Copenhagen
OSI-New York
January 19, 2010
slideshow AUDIO
Open Society Fellow Mark Hertsgaard and OSI's Nancy Youman share their eyewitness observations of the December 2009 climate change summit and assess its failure to establish ambitious goals for reducing carbon emissions.

more Latin America & Caribbean events

 

Why Overdose Matters for HIV
July 2010
This Open Society Foundations document presents arguments that organizations can make to AIDS funders to show that overdose prevention and response matter for HIV programming.

Treatment, Not Punishment
Alexandra Kirby
July 13, 2010
blog BLOG  
While many countries use UN World Drug Day as an occasion to persecute--and even execute--drug users, some organizations took the opportunity to emphasize the need for honest debate about drugs and for policies which seek to treat, not punish.

Exposing Mexico's Poisoned Justice System
Denise Tomasini-Joshi
July 13, 2010
blog BLOG  
An eye-opening documentary follows two attorneys as they attempt to prove the innocence of a young man wrongfully accused of murder, taking viewers behind the scenes into Mexico's prisons and courtrooms.

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