Rights & Justice

Foundations Award Justice Pioneers
Press Release
May 21, 2012
The Open Society Foundations announced an award of $1.5 million to a cohort of emerging and established leaders working to advance fairness and transparency in the U.S. criminal justice system.

Mistaken Victim of CIA Rendition and Abuse Gets European Court Hearing
May 16, 2012
Khaled El-Masri was told by captors that he was in a place where "there is no law, no rights; no one knows where you are, and no one cares about you."

Joint Statement: Italy Should Leave its anti-Roma Emergency Decree in the Past
May 11, 2012
Five international and Italian Human Rights groups are calling on the Italian government to abandon its effort to keep the 2008 "Nomad Emergency" decree alive.

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Is Privacy Overhyped? Four Views of Technology, Security, and Democracy Online
OSI-New York
April 16, 2012
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What is the fate of privacy in our uncertain digital future? An opinionated group of panelists explores the commercial, policy, and national security implications of the privacy controversy.

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?

National Security Secrecy and Surveillance: Defending the Public's Right to Know
OSI-New York
April 4, 2012
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A panel of whistleblowers, transparency advocates, and expert journalists offer insights informed by their own encounters with national security secrecy and surveillance.

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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.

Ukraine's Environment Faces Threat from Proposed Law
Halya Coynash
May 21, 2012
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Proposed changes to Ukraine's environmental regulatory system would centralize power, at the expense of local accountability and transparency.

Case Digest: UN Committee against Torture, May 2011
May 2012
The Justice Initiative has prepared short summaries of decisions and views which the UN Committee against Torture took on individual communications at its 46th session in May 2011.

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