About Open Society & Ensuring Accountability
The Open Society Public Health Program aims to ensure that civil society groups have the information, skills, and capacity to hold governments accountable for their actions. Through community monitoring and advocacy and engagement with the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the Program promotes civil society leadership and participation in shaping health policies that are based on evidence and respect human rights.
Ending Demand to End Sex Trafficking: Does it Work?
OSI-New York
April 12, 2012
 AUDIO
Experts discuss “end demand” campaigns that are primarily focused on abolishing prostitution by criminalizing the consumers of commercial sex. Are such policies effective in curtailing trafficking, and what impact do they have on marginalized communities?
Film Screening: They Took My Choice Away
OSI-New York
March 1, 2012
The Open Society Foundations present the New York premiere of "They Took My Choice Away," a short film about forced sterilization in Namibia. The premiere event includes a discussion with filmmaker Bob Sacha.
Book Launch: Ernest Drucker's A Plague of Prisons
OSI-New York
October 11, 2011
AUDIO
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.
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A Bad Investment for Europe
Judith Klein
May 7, 2012
 BLOG
European Union Member States are acting contrary to European law by investing EU Structural Funds in institutions for people with disabilities rather than supporting community-based services.
The European Union and the Right to Community Living
May 2012
This report by the Open Society Foundations examines how the use of EU Structural Funds to renovate or build institutions for people with disabilities rather than investing in community-based services is contrary to EU law.
Tools for Change: Women’s Rights to Transform Economic Power
Tamar Ezer
April 23, 2012
BLOG
Thousands of advocates gathered in Turkey to discuss economic empowerment of women. Ensuring women's equal access to land, property, and housing is critical to promoting women's rights and protecting their health.
Calling for UN Leadership on Women’s Property Rights
Tamar Ezer
April 16, 2012
BLOG
UN member states were unable to reach agreement on the empowerment of rural women during this year's convening of the Commission on the Status of Women. The UN should take real action to protect women's rights to housing, land, and property.
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