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Juvenile Incarceration: The Need for Reform
Liz Ryan October 6, 2011
BLOG
New York is poised to take further steps to remove young people from the lifelong negative consequences of prosecution and incarceration in the adult criminal justice system.
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Scaling Up the Millennium Villages Project
George Soros October 4, 2011
BLOG
The Millennium Villages Project is a bold initiative aimed at ending extreme poverty in rural Africa. As the project embarks on its next phase, the Open Society Foundations will continue its support in order to help spread the lessons gained in the model villages.
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Kyrgyzstan Must Respect Promise to Disabled
Kate Lapham October 4, 2011
BLOG
Disability in Kyrgyzstan, like the rest of Central Asia, is stigmatizing. But thanks to the public advocacy efforts of local organizations as well as disabled people themselves, attitudes are beginning to shift.
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The Global Problem of Forced Sterilization
Lydia Guterman October 4, 2011
BLOG
Health facilities are mandated to provide care, especially to society's most vulnerable people. When hospitals and clinics allow forced and coerced sterilizations, these facilities become places of abuse and torture.
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Case Watch: An African Victory in the Struggle against Statelessness
Laura Bingham October 4, 2011
BLOG
A decision by an African regional children's rights committee delivered on behalf of tens of thousands of children in Kenya who grow up without citizenship rights has set a new standard for tribunals both in Africa and around the world in the battle against statelessness.
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Book Launch: Ernest Drucker's A Plague of Prisons
OSI-New York
October 11, 2011
On October 11, Open Society Foundations fellow Ernest Drucker discusses his new book, A Plague of Prisons, a groundbreaking critique of mass incarceration in the United States and elsewhere.
Voices From Burma
Asia Society and Museum, New York City
October 11, 2011
This event will bring together prominent authors, actors, and Burmese dissidents to read excerpts of first-person accounts from the book Nowhere to Be Home: Narratives from Survivors of Burma's Military Regime.
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Mapping Digital Media: Italy
October 2011 This report calls on civil society, NGOs, and international organizations to urge the reform of legislation on conflicts of interest between political/institutional roles and media ownership.
Against Her Will: Forced and Coerced Sterilization of Women Worldwide
October 4, 2011 This Open Society Foundations fact sheet focuses on forced sterilization of racial and ethnic minorities, poor women, women living with HIV, and women with disabilities. It also provides recommendations to end this widespread human rights violation.
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