May 15, 2013 |
by Julita Lemgruber
If compulsory treatment of people with drug dependence has been condemned by jurists as unconstitutional and by health care professionals as a complete absurdity — why would the Brazilian government support such an approach?
May 15, 2013 |
by Cécile Marotte
Building a park requires green space; building a community requires dialogue. Martissant Park has both.
May 13, 2013 |
by Lorraine Mangonès
The vision of an open space comes alive at Martissant Park in Haiti, giving new life and new meaning to a place that might easily have been destroyed.
May 13, 2013 |
by Michèle Pierre-Louis
In Martissant Park, the only public park in Port-au-Prince, people find a pride of place and a hallowed ground to remember their dead.
Grantee Spotlight
April 23, 2013 |
by Ann Fordham
With limited resources, authorities are faced with nearly impossible decisions on how and when to enforce the law in order to maximize public security.
April 22, 2013 |
by Becky Hogge
Weekly news digest produced by the Information Program. This week’s top story reports on the vote in the US House of Representatives to pass CISPA, a draft law that is critiqued for attacking fundamental privacy rights.
April 18, 2013 |
by Emi MacLean
Guatemala’s current president has joined those warning against a finding of genocide in the trial of former military dictator Efrain Rios Montt.
April 9, 2013 |
by Rodrigo Uprimny
Over the past several decades, Latin America has seen penalties for drugs skyrocket, resulting in longer sentences for drug offenses than many violent crimes.
March 22, 2013 |
by Douglas Keillor, Javier Carrasco Solis
New justice reforms could help reduce overcrowding in Mexico’s state prisons, but only if the changes include an effective system for managing pretrial release.
March 20, 2013 |
by Chris Stone
The world is again debating its development agenda and how to do things better. One way is to make justice a key component of development.
