A Soros Justice Fellow talks about his new book on "Texas-style" incarceration, based on hard labor, corporal punishment, and racial debasement. Criminal justice, he argues, should be the civil rights arena of the 21st century.
Archive for March, 2010
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Posted in: Rights & Justice, United States
Topics: Adam Culbreath, overincarceration, prisons, racism, Robert Perkinson, Texas
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Imagine a country where a media mogul who controls the top three networks becomes prime minister and then systematically dismantles the independence of the public broadcasting service. That’s basically what has happened in Italy.
Posted in: Europe, Governance & Accountability, Media & Arts
Topics: Darian Pavli, democracy, Italy, media freedom, media independence, Silvio Berlusconi
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In Italy, where television is controlled by the government, the Internet provides a beacon of freedom. But will enough Italians fight to keep it open and free?
Posted in: Europe, Media & Arts
Topics: Internet, Italy, Television, Vera Franz
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In 1992, Rosalind Williams—an African-American woman and naturalized Spanish citizen—stepped off the train at a railway station in Spain and was immediately asked to produce her ID. When asked why she was the only person being stopped, the police officer explained that he was following...
Posted in: Europe, Rights & Justice
Topics: ethnic profiling, international law, Rachel Aicher, Rosalind Williams, video
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In Macedonia, sex workers are using video advocacy as a way to express their own voices and combat the extensive police violence and abuse that they suffer.
Posted in: Europe, Health, Media & Arts, Rights & Justice
Topics: Heather Doyle, Macedonia, police, sex workers, video, video advocacy
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The documentary series How Democracy Works Now provides a private, behind-the-scenes look at the 21st-century debate over immigration in America.
Posted in: Governance & Accountability, Rights & Justice, United States
Topics: democracy, immigration, Lori McGlinchey, video
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The recent Women in the World summit provided an all-too-familiar scene from the counter-trafficking world, in which survivors are rarely included in the conversation about policies that affect them.
Posted in: Asia, Rights & Justice, United States
Topics: feminism, human trafficking, Noy Thrupkaew, women
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We have the opportunity to radically reduce AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria rates. But when donors meet to discuss funding those efforts this fall, the question is: Will they make the right choice?
Posted in: Africa, Asia, Health, Latin America & the Caribbean
Topics: HIV/AIDS, malaria, Shannon Kowalski, tuberculosis
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It's a shame that Equatoguineans had to go to Switzerland just to have a chance to address their own government. But the inclusion of their voices is a small but critical step towards achieving accountability, rule of law, and the protection of human rights.
Posted in: Africa, Governance & Accountability
Topics: anticorruption, civil society, Equatorial Guinea, Erica Razook
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Two blonde American women, implicated in a plot to murder a cartoonist whose drawings of the Prophet Muhammad offended many Muslims, should put the last nail in the coffin of racial profiling. But don't bet on it.
Posted in: Europe, Rights & Justice, United States
Topics: counterterrorism, ethnic profiling, James A. Goldston, Muslims