Project Prevention: Mothers and Children Speak Out
Tamas Varga May 21, 2012
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National Advocates for Pregnant Women offer a poignant video response to efforts to spread dangerous and dehumanizing claims about mothers who have used drugs.
How Can the U.S. Help the Roma?
Zeljko Jovanovic May 15, 2012
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The U.S. has announced it will join, as an observer, the Decade of Roma Inclusion, an international initiative to improve the well-being of Europe's most vulnerable minority. The decision has not come a moment too soon.
Open Society Advances in 2010–2011
May 2012 This report documents our work around the world supporting a wide range of partners and grantees to strengthen rights and justice, health, media and information, governance and accountability, and education and youth.
Drug Users Burned by the System in Peru
Daniel Wolfe and Denise Tomasini-Joshi May 13, 2012
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Recent fatal fires inside two drug detention centers in Peru shine a light on abusive practices and unjust detention of people in need of medical services, including those with intellectual disabilities.
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Ending Demand to End Sex Trafficking: Does it Work?
OSI-New York
April 12, 2012
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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: Raw Opium: Pain, Pleasure, Profits
OSI-New York
March 22, 2012
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Open Society Foundations hosts the New York premiere of the documentary, "Raw Opium: Pain, Pleasure, Profits." Amy Goodman will moderate a panel discussion of the film.
Consumers in the Information Society
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
March 8, 2012
This event, organized by Open Society grantee Consumers International, addresses questions raised by digital technologies about a fair intellectual property regime that fosters access to knowledge.
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.
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