Crunching Numbers for Human Rights: The Promise and Perils of Data and Statistics
OSI-New York
February 9, 2011
audio AUDIO
Patrick Ball uses examples from Guatemala, El Salvador, Kosovo, Colombia, Timor-Leste, and Sierra Leone to explain how statistics derived from data collected by direct observation can be inconsistent or misleading.

The Perils and Promise of Mass Action Against Genocide in Africa
OSI-New York
February 8, 2011
audio AUDIO
To mark the launch of a book by activist and former Open Society Fellow Rebecca Hamilton, a panel of experts discuss how and whether the public can intervene to stop genocide.

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Harm Reduction at Work
March 2011
This book by the Open Society Public Health Program is a practical, hands-on guide for harm reduction and drug policy organizations that employ people who use drugs.

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Article 19 Under the Microscope
Tashmin Ali
March 18, 2011
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In the wake of Wikileaks and in the midst of the turmoil across the Middle East and North Africa, today at the UN the Human Rights Committee will reconsider its interpretation of Article 19, which guarantees the right to freedom of expression. Advocates worldwide will be paying close attention.

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Moving Walls 17

Moving Walls 17
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The documentary photographs in this Open Society Foundations 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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