Europe Leads the Way Forward on Accountability for Torture
Amrit Singh
June 9, 2011
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After a series of setbacks to efforts seeking accountability for CIA renditions, the European Parliament took an unexpected and positive step.

Campaign Aims to Give Roma Women an Equal Chance Against Cancer
Bernard Rorke
June 9, 2011
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In Hungary, Roma women are three times more likely to die from cancer as their non-Roma counterparts. Yet 90 percent of these cases could be cured if detected in time and treated appropriately.

Ukraine: Shining Light on a Silent Epidemic
Azadeh Momenghalibaf
June 9, 2011
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As many as one million Ukrainians may be living with hepatitis C, yet neither testing nor treatment for the disease are widely available.

European Parliament Slams U.S. on Guantanamo Death Penalty Case
Press Release
June 9, 2011
The European Parliament called on the U.S. to give Guantanamo prisoner Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri a fair trial in accordance with international standards of the rule of law. The resolution comes on the heels of a case filed by the Open Society Justice Initiative.

Call the Witness: An Interview with Maria Hlavajova
Sanneke Huisman
June 8, 2011
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Curator Maria Hlavajova discusses the exhibition "Call the Witness," currently appearing at the Venice Biennale. It looks at the situation of Roma in Europe as emblematic of a world filled with inequality and oppression.

Europe Moving to Strengthen Arrest Rights
Marion Isobel
June 8, 2011
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Europeans may be surprised to hear that basic rights, such as the right to a lawyer or a phone call, are only now being debated at the European level. Yet at the moment many countries in the region fail to provide them.

Europe Must Increase Pressure for Czech Roma Desegregation
Tracey Gurd
June 7, 2011
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The new Czech school year starts in September, and unless something drastic changes, many more Roma children could face segregation into "special schools" on the basis of their ethnicity.

Sex Workers and HIV: When Morality Trumps Science
Heather Doyle
June 7, 2011
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Despite UN recognition of the importance of HIV-prevention outreach to at-risk populations, the inability to protect sex workers from HIV remains appalling.