Events
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Aug 2
August 2, 2008
5:00 a.m.–5:30 p.m. (EDT)
Latin America Program
Mexico CityStrategies for Change: Breaking Barriers to HIV Prevention, Treatment and Care for Women
OSI convened a symposium in advance of the 2008 International AIDS Conference to discuss legal, economic, advocacy, and treatment strategies for a more "women-friendly" response to HIV.
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Aug 1
August 1, 2008
3:00 p.m. until
August 3, 2008
7:00 p.m. (EDT)
Bishek, KyrgyzstanBarCamp Asia 2008
BarCamp Asia 2008 will gather people interested in the development of the Internet and new media in particular.
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Jul 24
July 24, 2008
3:00–7:00 p.m. (EDT)
Open Society Foundations–New York
New YorkBlack Male Achievement—What Needs to Be Done
The OSI Campaign for Black Male Achievement hosted a discussion to shine a light on the organizations and leaders focusing on solutions to the crisis in America facing black men and boys.
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Jul 23
July 23, 2008
3:00 p.m. until
August 5, 2008
7:00 p.m. (EDT)
Smolyan, BulgariaYouth Forum 2008
Over 250 debaters from around the world gathered to train and compete for this OSI-supported event, which encourages young people to discuss current issues and build skills for active citizenship.
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Jul 22
July 22, 2008
1:00–6:30 p.m. (EDT)
Open Society Foundations–New York
New YorkWomen of Liberia—Fighting for Peace
OSI and Amnesty International held a film screening and panel discussion of Women of Liberia: Fighting for Peace, a documentary by Academy Award–winner Jonathan Stack.
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Jul 17
July 17, 2008
3:00 p.m. until
July 19, 2008
7:00 p.m. (EDT)
New York CityYouth Leadership Summit
Over 160 high school students and teachers convened at the United Nations in New York City to participate in the first annual Youth Leadership Summit, sponsored in part by OSI.
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Jul 17
July 17, 2008
2:00–6:00 p.m. (EDT)
Open Society Foundations–New York
New YorkMy Guantánamo Diary—The Detainees and the Stories They Told Me
The Open Society Institute hosted a discussion of a new book that tells the hidden stories of Guantánamo detainees and probes the injustices committed in the name of the "war on terror."
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Jul 17
July 17, 2008
5:00 a.m. until
July 19, 2008
5:00 p.m. (EDT)
Alexandria, EgyptWikimania 2008: The International Wikimedia Conference
Wikimania is an annual global event devoted to Wikimedia projects around the globe and for its editors and users to gather, meet each other, exchange ideas, and report on research and projects.
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Jul 5
July 5, 2008
5:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. (EDT)
Madrid, SpainPanel on Forced Sterilization of Romani Women at the 2008 Women's World Congress
As part of the 2008 Women's World Congress, the OSI Roma Health Project supported a panel discussion and advocacy campaign to raise awareness of the coerced sterilization of Romani women in Europe.
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Jun 27
June 27, 2008
3:00–7:00 p.m. (EDT)
Bucharest, RomaniaEuropean Youth and AIDS Seminar
Supported by the European Commission, DG SANCO and OSI's Roma Health Project, the European Youth and AIDS Seminar promotes the development of community-based HIV/AIDS NGOs in Central and Eastern Europe, especially in the new and future Member...
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Jun 25
June 25, 2008
3:00 p.m. until
July 5, 2008
7:00 p.m. (EDT)
Veliko Turnovo and Stara Zagora, BulgariaCommunication Through Media: Training for Roma NGOs in Bulgaria
Twenty-five representatives of Roma grassroots organizations from Bulgaria took part in two training workshops supported by the Health Media Initiative and the Roma Health Project.
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Jun 25
June 25, 2008
5:00 a.m. until
June 27, 2008
5:00 p.m. (EDT)
Toronto, CanadaOpen Scholarship: Authority, Community and Sustainability in the Age of Web 2.0
This international conference addresses electronic publishing and the future of scholarly communication in the ever-changing world of networking technologies.
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