In a video interview, Open Society Fellow Susan Burton talks about her work helping formerly incarcerated women in South Los Angeles turn their lives around.
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Bukavu Central Prison is crowded now, clerks say, because so many men are being detained and sentenced to jail on rape charges. Photograph: Chuck Sudetic/Open Society Foundations
Voices from inside Bukavu Central Prison, home now to those convicted of rape by the Kamituga mobile court. -
The killing of bin Laden does not mean the end to conflict with terrorists and militants or an end to the use of targeted killing operations in Pakistan. But it should mark an end to years of secret targeted killings by the United States.
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The Open Society Justice Initiative is calling on the European Court of Human Rights to intervene urgently in the first death penalty case to be tried by U.S. military commissions at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
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