May 15, 2013 |
by Michelle Dellatorre, Maxim Ferschtman
The UN Human Rights Commission has found that a 2004 French ban on religious headcoverings at public schools breached a Sikh student’s right to religious freedom.
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 14, 2013 |
by Adam Culbreath
The 2013 Soros Justice Fellows work on behalf of constituencies often given little voice or visibility.
Q&A
May 14, 2013 |
by Zoe Brogden
The director of IDENTOBA, an Open Society grantee working in Georgia, speaks frankly about the barriers faced there by the LGBTQI community.
May 14, 2013 |
by Marina Ilminska
The European Court of Human Rights seldom rules on Article 18 of the European Convention. But several recent high profile cases have brought it into the spotlight.
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.
May 10, 2013 |
by Sarah Baker
The practice of putting children on sex offender registries is one glaring example of how we have failed to provide true justice for kids.
May 10, 2013 |
by Becky Hogge
Weekly news digest produced by the Information Program. This week’s top story covers the Indian government’s controversial release of a centralized monitoring system to track communications in the country.