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George Soros: Open Society, the Financial Crisis, and the Way Ahead
October 2009
VIDEO
Open Society Institute founder and chairman George Soros shares his latest thinking on economics and politics in a lecture series based on a lifetime of practical and philosophical reflection.

Continued Segregation in Czech Schools Devastates Lives of Roma Children
Press Release
November 11, 2009
The Czech Republic can set a much-needed example for the rest of Europe by following through on its commitment to integrate its educational system, said the Open Society Justice Initiative today.

EU-AU Relations: What Role for Civil Society?
April 2009
OSI-Brussels senior policy officer Carmen Silvestre offers an analysis of the Joint EU-Africa Strategy, the EU-Africa Human Rights Dialogue, and opportunities for civil society engagement.

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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.

Roma Education to Get Crucial Boost in Funding
Press Release
November 12, 2009
At an international conference hosted by the Open Society Institute, the World Bank, and the European Economic and Social Committee, donors committed �25.5 million toward education for the Roma, Europe's largest minority.

Call for Applications: European Commission Internships for Young Roma Graduates
November 4, 2009
The Open Society Institute offers five-month European Commission internships for young Roma university graduates from all new EU member states (excluding Cyprus and Malta), Croatia, Macedonia, Serbia, Kosovo, Montenegro, and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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Fire + Fire: The Sounds and Stories of Two Cultures Bound by Rhythm and Race
New York City
November 19, 2009
This event explores the parallels between Roma and African American experience through a fusion of spoken word, movement, and music.

Wrong Color, Wrong Clothes: Accounts of Ethnic Profiling in France & United States
OSI-New York
October 14, 2009
AUDIO
The Open Society Justice Initiative hosts a comparative discussion on documenting and challenging racial profiling in France and the United States.

Prosecuting Heads of State
OSI-New York
April 23, 2009
AUDIO
This panel event explored the issue of accountability for former heads of state who committed human rights violations and other abuses while in power.

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Fall of the Berlin Wall: Seeking Paradise, Finding Europe
Slavenka Drakulic
November 5, 2009
Croatian author and journalist Slavenka Drakulic reflects on how communism�s collapse has brought more choices for toothpaste as well as a slower, more difficult change in consciousness.

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.

Fall of the Berlin Wall: Days of Dissent and Dreams of Democracy
Chuck Sudetic
November 5, 2009
Open Society Institute senior writer Chuck Sudetic tells of the life and times of Annette Laborey, executive director of OSI-Paris, who in the 1980s helped dissidents behind the Iron Curtain survive and triumph.

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