Governance & Accountability

Call for Proposals: Web-Based Transparency & Accountability Tools in Central & Eastern Europe
October 21, 2009
The Open Society Institute Information Program, in partnership with mySociety, plans to launch a joint project to help individuals and organizations use the Internet to increase transparency and accountability in their countries.

Call for Applications: Open Society Justice Initiative Fellows Program
October 11, 2009
The program aims to support and further develop a network of lawyers and activists working on human rights-related issues internationally.

EU Credibility at Risk if Turkey's Accession Process Stalls
Press Release
September 7, 2009
With a new round of peace talks on Cyprus resuming this month, a group of distinguished Europeans today issued a report urging the two sides to arrive at a settlement in order to remove obstacles to the accession negotiations between Turkey and the European Union.

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Kazakhstan's Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Chairmanship
Washington, D.C.
November 18, 2009
At this event, sponsored by the Open Society Institute and Freedom House, leading Kazakhstani civil society activists will discuss the status of human rights in Kazakhstan.

Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil
OSI-New York
November 11, 2009
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The Revenue Watch Institute, an OSI partner and grantee, hosts a conversation with journalist Peter Maass about his new book on "the troubled world oil has created."

George Soros: Central European University Lecture Series
Budapest, Hungary
October 26, 2009
Open Society Institute founder and chairman George Soros launches the inaugural Central European University Lectures, distilling his theoretical and practical insights on reflexivity, open society, global financial markets, and future trends.

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Open Society News: Eastern Europe—Where Do Open Societies Stand 20 Years Later?
Fall 2009
The stories in this issue of Open Society News serve as reminders of the frenetic energy and excitement that filled people as communism in Europe fell apart.

Fall of the Berlin Wall: Voices from Transition
Helena Luczywo
November 5, 2009
An account of the collapse of communism by one journalist who participated in Eastern Europe's transition.

Fall of the Berlin Wall: Freedom Rises and Spreads After the Fall
Vaclav Havel
November 5, 2009
Vaclav Havel reflects on civil society in Eastern Europe and the Open Society Institute's contribution to democratic change in the region.

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