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The Battle Ahead: Climate Change After Copenhagen
OSI-New York
January 19, 2010
slideshow AUDIO
Open Society Fellow Mark Hertsgaard and OSI's Nancy Youman share their eyewitness observations of the December 2009 climate change summit and assess its failure to establish ambitious goals for reducing carbon emissions.

 

Southeast Asian Media: Patterns of Production and Consumption
January 2010
This OSI report examines patterns of news media production and consumption in Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste, and Vietnam.

Stop Torture in Health Care
Daniel Wolfe
January 26, 2010
blog BLOG  
Throughout Southeast Asia, men and women who are caught using drugs are locked away in so-called rehabilitation centers where they are routinely tortured.

 

The Road from Ayodhya: Muslim Inclusion in a New India
OSI-New York
February 16, 2010
slideshow AUDIO
Open Society Fellow Basharat Peer discusses India's Muslim population as they try to find their place during a time of rapid economic growth and lingering sectarian tensions.

Call for Participants: Regional Seminar for Excellence in Teaching
March 12, 2010
OSI's Regional Seminar for Excellence in Teaching seeks junior faculty teaching at undergraduate university programs in the humanities and social sciences in the countries of Southeastern Europe and Eurasia.

Call for Applications: Open Society Foundation Aarhus Scholarship Program in European Studies
March 10, 2010
The Open Society Institute and Aarhus University offer scholarships for the master's program in European Studies at the University of Aarhus in Denmark to nationals of Belarus.

Activities Roundup: November 2009–February 2010
March 8, 2010
This newsletter provides an overview of the Open Society Justice Initiative’s activities from November 2009 to February 2010.

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YouthExchange 2010
Budapest, Hungary
April 10, 2010
Sponsored by the Open Society Institute, YouthExchange focuses on promoting democracy through the use of new media.

Freedom for Sale: Why the World Is Trading Democracy for Security
OSI-New York
March 18, 2010
Author John Kampfner discusses his book on the new paradigm of authoritarian capitalism with Joel Simon, director of the Committee to Protect Journalists.

Power and Capability: Ideas of Justice
Live Webcast
March 15, 2010
This lecture, the first of a series on critical issues affecting open societies around the world, features Nobel Laureate professor Amartya Sen.

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Drawing the Line: Parental Informal Payments for Education across Eurasia
March 2010
This OSI report looks at the issue of private contributions to public education in Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Moldova, Slovakia, and Tajikistan.

Human Rights and Drug Policy
The International Harm Reduction Association, Human Rights Watch, and OSI created a series of fact sheets on the human rights implications of anti-drug policies and practices, including compulsory drug treatment, detention, crop eradication, and controlled essential medicines.

Strangers at the Door: Night Raids by International Forces Lose Hearts and Minds of Afghans
February 23, 2010
Night raids by international forces in Afghanistan are widely associated with abuse and impunity, according to this briefing paper issued by the Open Society Institute and the Afghan nongovernmental organization The Liaison Office.

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