Scaling Up the Millennium Villages Project
George Soros
October 4, 2011
 BLOG
The Millennium Villages Project is a bold initiative aimed at ending extreme poverty in rural Africa. As the project embarks on its next phase, the Open Society Foundations will continue its support in order to help spread the lessons gained in the model villages.
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Kyrgyzstan Must Respect Promise to Disabled
Katherine Lapham
October 4, 2011
BLOG
Disability in Kyrgyzstan, like the rest of Central Asia, is stigmatizing. But thanks to the public advocacy efforts of local organizations as well as disabled people themselves, attitudes are beginning to shift.
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The Global Problem of Forced Sterilization
Lydia Guterman
October 4, 2011
BLOG
Health facilities are mandated to provide care, especially to society's most vulnerable people. When hospitals and clinics allow forced and coerced sterilizations, these facilities become places of abuse and torture.
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Case Watch: An African Victory in the Struggle against Statelessness
Laura Bingham
October 4, 2011
BLOG
A decision by an African regional children's rights committee delivered on behalf of tens of thousands of children in Kenya who grow up without citizenship rights has set a new standard for tribunals both in Africa and around the world in the battle against statelessness.
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Delivering Timely Justice in Africa
Kersty McCourt
October 4, 2011
BLOG
Two people closely involved in efforts to reduce the number of prisoners awaiting trial in Uganda talk about the challenges they face.
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Fear and Statelessness in Mauritania
Sebastian Kohn
October 3, 2011
BLOG
An outbreak of violence in southern Mauritania has drawn attention to fears among the country's black population that a government census could lead to loss of citizenship rights.
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9/11 at 10: A Military Voice Against Torture
David R. Irvine
October 1, 2011
BLOG
I taught interrogation and the law of war for 18 years to U.S. Army, Air Force, and Marine interrogators. The truth—uncontroversial among those who actually interrogate suspects—is that torture is likely to produce faulty information because its victims will say anything to make the pain stop.
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Voices From Burma
Asia Society and Museum, New York City
October 11, 2011
This event will bring together prominent authors, actors, and Burmese dissidents to read excerpts of first-person accounts from the book Nowhere to Be Home: Narratives from Survivors of Burma's Military Regime.
Book Launch: Ernest Drucker's A Plague of Prisons
OSI-New York
October 11, 2011
On October 11, Open Society Foundations fellow Ernest Drucker discusses his new book, A Plague of Prisons, a groundbreaking critique of mass incarceration in the United States and elsewhere.
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Against Her Will: Forced and Coerced Sterilization of Women Worldwide
October 4, 2011
This Open Society Foundations fact sheet focuses on forced sterilization of racial and ethnic minorities, poor women, women living with HIV, and women with disabilities. It also provides recommendations to end this widespread human rights violation.
Building Open Society in the Western Balkans, 1991–2011
October 2011
This report documents two decades in the life and times of the region, and assesses the situation in the crucial areas of humanitarian assistance, citizenship rights, responsibility for war crimes, arts and culture, the international presence, media, and education.
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