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Open Society Voices
For Profound Change in America, Think Local
January 16, 2014 | By investing in partnerships among nonprofits, government, business, and communities, we aim to expand the potential to respond to the profound demographic, economic, and technological changes taking place in the U.S.
The New Civil Rights Frontier: School Discipline
January 13, 2014 | A new document from the Obama Administration aims to address the shocking racial disparities in who gets disciplined at school and how.
The Joint Africa-EU Strategy Must Support Civil Society
January 13, 2014 | If the Joint Africa-EU Strategy loses sight of its people-centered focus, it will become an irrelevant project for the populations of both continents. Civil society should be an integral part of ensuring this does not happen.
Drug Courts and Drug Treatment: Dismissing Science and Patients’ Rights
January 10, 2014 | Judges in New York are ordering patients to stop physician-prescribed drug treatment as a condition of participation in drug court, according to a new study.
Grantee Spotlight
The Tool for Success Every Student Should Have
January 7, 2014 | Jake Hayman wants to improve your social networks—and he doesn’t mean Facebook and Twitter. He believes every student deserves successful mentors—not just a privileged few.
Justice for Eight in Crack-Cocaine Sentencing. Thousands to Go.
January 7, 2014 | Clemency not only provides a measure of justice for people who have been unnecessarily incarcerated, it curbs huge costs to taxpayers.
Behind the Staggering Rise in Women’s Imprisonment in Latin America
January 6, 2014 | Between 2006 and 2011, the female prison population in Latin America almost doubled. Why? Harsh and ineffective drug policies.
Now You See Him, Now You Don’t: Switzerland’s Troubling Gaydamak Affair
December 20, 2013 | Arcadi Gaydamak is on the run from a three-year prison sentence in France, linked to the Angolagate arms-for-oil scandal. Switzerland arrested him; then let him go.
Case Watch: A Step Forward for Constitutional Challenge to NSA Surveillance
December 18, 2013 | U.S. Federal Judge Richard Leon agreed that the Fourth Amendment rights of two plaintiffs had been violated by the National Security Agency's mass surveillance of phone metadata.
“We Are What We Remember”: The Open Society Archives
December 18, 2013 | From dossiers of the Czech secret police to photos of remains from a mass grave in Srebrenica, the holdings of the Open Society Archives are a testimony to our past and a resource for a different, better future.