How can we resolve uncertainties and policy conflicts to ensure that former prisoners can successfully find jobs and states can reduce incarceration costs?
Archive for January, 2011
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Posted in: Rights & Justice, United States
Topics: criminal justice, Criminal Justice Fund, criminal justice reform, employment, Malcom Young, prisons, reentry
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EU Roma policy needs to combine a rights-based approach with clear development goals for social inclusion, which will guarantee equal access to basic services necessary to lead a life with dignity.
Posted in: Europe, Rights & Justice
Topics: Bernard Rorke, Europe, European Union, Hungary, inclusion, Roma, Roma Initiative
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It is a strategic mistake for the European Union to leave human rights out of energy talks with Turkmenistan and other potential suppliers.
Posted in: Europe, Governance & Accountability, Rights & Justice
Topics: Central Asia, energy, European Union, human rights, Jacqueline Hale, transparency, Turkmenistan
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Rather than establish an age limit to political leadership, as some are currently suggesting, the imperative in Kenya should be to decisively reject old ideas.
Posted in: Africa, Governance & Accountability
Topics: corruption, Kenya, Med Yones, Mugambi Kiai, Ngunjiri Wambugu
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The unprovoked shooting of three suspects in Nairobi highlights the need for greater oversight of Kenya's police force.
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In recent remarks on shifting resources in the U.S. "war on drugs," President Obama echoed many of the strides made in Portugal since that European nation decriminalized drugs in 2001.
Posted in: Europe, Health, United States
Topics: Barack Obama, drug policy, drug users, Europe, harm reduction, HIV/AIDS, human rights, Kathleen Kingsbury, Portugal, public health, United States, video
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Whatever happens in Washington (or Tucson) does not constitute the sum total of our democracy. Democracy happens in unadorned meeting rooms on quiet corners in New Orleans East and beyond.
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A prominent gay rights activist was found murdered in his home in Uganda. The government has created a hostile environment that puts the lives of human rights activists at risk.
Posted in: Africa, Health, Rights & Justice
Topics: David Kato, Heather Doyle, human rights, LGBTI, Sexual Minorities Uganda, Uganda
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On paper Swaziland, Africa’s last absolute monarchy, seems willing to respect and uphold women’s rights. In practice, however, things are very different.
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Government reluctance to provide methadone treatment or clean needles is only one of the fatal impediments to effectively addressing HIV and tuberculosis in Russia.
Posted in: Asia, Europe, Health
Topics: drug policy, drug treatment, HIV/AIDS, human rights, Maria Golovanevskaya, Russia, tuberculosis, video