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- Andrea Figari is a Global Programmes Manager in the Global Outreach and Campaigns Department at Transparency International
- Endorsed by 43 countries, the Open Government Partnership is an important means by which to encourage governments to uphold the principles of transparency and accountability.
- Increased nighttime military raids by international military forces in Afghanistan have created a resentment that has undercut any battlefield gains from the tactic, according to a report released Monday by a U.S. think tank.
- Stateless Children: Denied the Right to Have Rights | Open Society Justice Initiative | Open SocietyThe blight of statelessness affects an estimated 12 million people around the world. But it is in the lives of an estimated 5 million stateless children that the injustice is often most painfully evident.
- Sixteen years after the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, survivors of rape and torture continue to suffer lasting trauma. One local organization, an Open Society grantee, is working to ensure that these women receive reparations and to prevent future violence.
- So long, torture victims. Hello, fashion victims!
- Drug Policy in Portugal: The Benefits of Decriminalizing Drug Use | Global Drug Policy Program | OpeThis Open Society Foundations report documents how decriminalization can reduce drug consumption, dependence, recidivism, and HIV infection, and create safer communities for all.
- The Guardian and the London School of Economics will work together on the first empirical study into the rioting and looting
- The Aftermath Project is a non-profit foundation offering grants for photographers covering the aftermath of war and conflict.
- A new documentary film by the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union offers a clear and moving message of why societies should not lock up people with intellectual disabilities. Unfortunately, political leaders in Hungary seem unwilling to change the status quo.
- LONDON, Aug 23 (AlertNet) - Rejected by the countries they call home and denied the most basic of rights, stateless people live in a shadowy limbo -- in the words of one such person, like being between
- Robert Perkinson, a professor of American studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. His Texas Tough: The Rise of America’s Prison Empire (Metropolitan Books) won the biennial John Kenneth Galbraith award for a “distinguished book of general nonfiction possessing notable literary merit and critic...
- Mapping Digital Media: Freedom of Expression Rights in the Digital Age | Media Program | Open SocietThis paper examines the internet as a new platform for freedom of expression, one that encourages peer-to-peer collaboration as well as traditional one-to-many forms of communication.
- The Bloomberg administration is planning far-reaching measures to help improve opportunities for young black and Latino men. The mayor himself will finance about a quarter of the cost.
- Call for Proposals: Promoting Youth Participation in Response to Xenophobia and Racism in Europe | YThe Open Society Foundations invite proposals for new and innovative initiatives that promote tolerance and inclusion and/or combat racism and xenophobia in Europe.