Governance & Accountability

Call for Proposals: Fostering Open Society in West Africa
Deadline: July 2, 2012
The Open Society Initiative for West Africa invites proposals for programs implemented in one or more of the following countries: Benin, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, and Sierra Leone.

Call for Proposals: Central Eurasia Project
Deadline: Ongoing
Funds are available in programmatic areas including human rights, labor migration, transparency and consumer protection, and transparency of Western military and security cooperation.

Call for Applications: Summer University Courses on Privatisation in Education and Innovative Financing for Education
Deadline: February 15, 2012
Applications are invited from educational researchers, policy analysts, education finance specialists, government officials, advanced graduate students, and faculty members.

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The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade
OSI-New York
November 7, 2011
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A panel of experts discuss The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade, by Open Society Fellow Andrew Feinstein.

Saving Dolma: Female Migrant Domestic Workers in the Middle East
OSI-New York
November 2, 2011
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Produced and directed by Kesang Tseten, the documentary Saving Dolma reflects on the lives of female migrant domestic workers, one of the most vulnerable groups of workers, and the issues they face in the Middle East.

Book Launch: Ernest Drucker's A Plague of Prisons
OSI-New York
October 11, 2011
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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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How Open Society Grantees Are Advancing Access to Public Information in Latin America
Vonda Brown
February 9, 2012
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The right to access public information has increasingly been recognized by Latin America's governments, in large part thanks to the work of Open Society Latin America Program grantees and partner civil society organizations.

What Facebook Tells Us About Far-Right Populism in Hungary
Jamie Bartlett and Kreko Peter
February 9, 2012
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The ease with which the Hungarian populist party Jobbik has exploited wider societal worries is an indictment of how polarized Hungarian society has become, but also suggests the potential for its supporters to be brought back into mainstream politics.

Three Principles to Strengthen the Rule of Law
James A. Goldston
January 26, 2012
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World leaders have an opportunity at the United Nations this year to declare that the application of law should be free of the taint of political interest.

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