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Open Society announces the 2020 recipients of the Puerto Rico Youth Fellowships, which support young Puerto Rican leaders working to elevate justice, promote human rights, and help underserved communities in Puerto Rico.

The 19 fellows, who hail from eight different states, Puerto Rico, and Washington, D.C., will receive a stipend for full-time projects to create a more just and equitable society.

The European Commission today launches the European Climate Pact, the nonlegislative, public-facing aspect of the European Green Deal

The Open Society Foundations announced that Patrick Gaspard will step down as president at the end of the year.

In a landmark advisory opinion, the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights found that vagrancy laws on the books of at least 38 African countries discriminate against women, children, people with disabilities, and others.

The short, globally relevant document is intended to provide a menu that civil society groups can adapt to their local needs.

Although 97 percent of active publishing climate scientists agree that humans have caused recent global warming, a new report finds significant minorities—and, in some countries, majorities—are unaware of this consensus.

Soros Fund Management LLC did not recently purchase shares in Palantir Technologies Inc.

After one of the greatest tests of America’s democracy since its founding, the Open Society Foundations are redoubling our efforts to move the United States ever closer to its founding ideals.