Events
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Mar 1
March 1, 2007
12:30–7:00 p.m. (EST)
Open Society Foundations–New York
New YorkAll Sides of the Story Voices of Women Activists from the Middle East and North Africa
OSI and V-Day Karama hosted a reception and panel discussion featuring women activists from the Middle East and North Africa attending the 51st Session of the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women.
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Mar 1
March 1, 2007
4:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. (EST)
Open Society Foundations–New York
New YorkRacial Discrimination in Education—Comparative Experience in the U.S. and Europe
OSI's U.S. Justice Fund and the Open Society Justice Initiative hosted a comparative conversation on strategies for anti-discrimination legal advocacy in education.
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Feb 27
February 27, 2007
2:00–8:30 p.m. (EST)
New York CityState-Sanctioned Mass Rape in Burma and Sudan
Burma Project/Southeast Asia Initiative Director Maureen Aung-Thwin participated in this UN panel discussion as part of the 51st Session of Commission on the Status of Women.
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Feb 26
February 26, 2007
9:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m. (EST)
New York City"Homefront Security": Challenges and Opportunities Combating Violence Against Women and Girls in the Middle East and North Africa
OSI's Network Women's Program and V-Day Karama sponsored a panel featuring women leaders from the Middle East and North Africa attending the 51st Session of the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women.
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Feb 21
February 21, 2007
1:00–6:00 p.m. (EST)
Open Society Foundations–New York
New YorkGrbavica—The Land of My Dreams
The Open Society Institute sponsored a panel discussion with Jasmila Zbanic, director and screenwriter from Bosnia and Herzegovina, to mark the U.S. premiere of her film Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams.
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Feb 11
February 11, 2007
4:00 a.m. until
February 17, 2007
5:00 p.m. (EST)
Salzburg, AustriaSalzburg Seminar: Teaching Human Rights in Patient Care
OSI's Law and Health Initiative offered the first Salzburg Seminar on Law and Health, which addressed human rights education among medical professionals in former Soviet countries.
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Feb 9
February 9, 2007
7:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. (EST)
Open Society Foundations–New York
New YorkLaw or Politics? Kyrgyzstan's Battle for a New Constitution
The Open Society Institute's Central Eurasia Project presented a discussion with Shairbek Juraev, Research Director at the Institute for Public Policy, Bishkek.
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Feb 8
February 8, 2007
10:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m. (EST)
OSI-Washington, DCProspects for Civil Society in Post-Niyazov Turkmenistan
OSI's Turkmenistan Project sponsored a discussion with Farid Tuhbatullin, director of the Turkmen Initiative for Human Rights.
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Feb 8
February 8, 2007
4:00 a.m. until
March 3, 2007
5:00 p.m. (EST)
Beirut, LebanonMoving Walls Beirut Exhibition
The photographs in this exhibition cover diverse regions—including Ethiopia, the former Soviet Union, the Middle East, and the United States—and subjects such as political transition, prison life, wounded veterans, American Islam, and homelessness.
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Feb 6
February 6, 2007
5:00–11:30 a.m. (EST)
OSI-BaltimoreConfronting Confinement
OSI-Baltimore presents a discussion on how correctional facilities nationwide can become safer and more effective.
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Feb 5
February 5, 2007
4:00 a.m. until
February 6, 2007
5:00 p.m. (EST)
Salzburg, AustriaTB and Social Exclusion in Eastern Europe
This OSI-sponsored seminar explored the impact of social exclusion on TB epidemiology, particularly with regard to marginalized populations such as Roma.
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Jan 23
January 23, 2007
7:30 a.m.–2:00 p.m. (EST)
Open Society Foundations–New York
New YorkUpdate from Tashkent—Human Rights Watch's Work on Uzbekistan
OSI's Central Eurasia Project sponsored a talk with two regional experts from Human Rights Watch: Andrea Berg, Uzbekistan researcher, and Rachel Denber, deputy director for Europe and Central Asia.
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