Back in 1998, more than a year before the outbreak of war in Kosovo, Roma writer and activist Orhan Galjus warned of the perils facing the Roma, caught between the official Serbian and the clandestine Albanian state structures.
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Posted in: Europe, Rights & Equality
Topics: Balkans, Bernard Rorke, IDPs, refugees, Roma, Zeljko Jovanovic
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Overincarceration has been an unresolved issue for the past 25 years, but a new framework of thinking is on the horizon.
Posted in: Justice, United States
Topics: criminal justice, Nkechi Taifa, overincarceration
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On his first day in office, President Obama promised a “new era of transparency” for the U.S. government. On December 8, 2009, the administration finally pinned down its transparency policy when it released its Open Government Directive. The directive requires that all agencies develop and...
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The current education crisis is like a slow-drip Katrina; the likes of a category 5 hurricane that steadily erodes not only the schooling conditions of Black boys, but too many low-income students of every gender and all races attending under-resourced schools across the country.