This panel explored the role that women living in rural coca and opium poppy growing regions play in their communities, the consequences of forced eradication campaigns, and the need for sustainable and equitable drug policies.
This conversation will explore lessons learned from the U.S. elections and how future U.S. foreign policy will affect Roma in Europe.
This conversation will explore what can be learned from COVID-19 shutdowns of educational institutions, how learning can be returned to safely, and how we can harness the potential of education technology to defend against authoritarian interests.
Critiquing how Western-based health models and frameworks can serve as instruments of racism and violence, a panel of scholars, artists, and activists discusses the role of healing in political liberation and well-being.
A panel of experts discusses U.S. trade policy at a time of economic upheaval and a presidential transition.
Three panels featuring frontline activists and local leaders discuss the rise of mandatory detention, assess the current situation, and explain how a world without mandatory detention would work to everyone’s benefit.
As storytellers working on the frontlines of protest, photographers Devin Allen and Ruddy Roye will discuss creating new narratives and combating the misrepresentation of Black communities and resistance.
Waves of protest for social justice are flourishing, even as governments in many parts of the world meet protesters with violence. What can be done to protect our right to get into “good trouble”?
How might the German Presidency of the EU Council help to address structural inequities in EU-Africa relations?
On September 23, the European Commission presented a long-delayed plan to overhaul EU migration and asylum policy, with new urgency created by the catastrophic fire at Moria. This conversation explored what comes next.
COVID-19 has spurred a new wave of worker organizing—online and on the streets—grounded in racial and economic justice. This conversation examined the future of workers’ rights and Open Society’s efforts to promote them.
This discussion will explore recommendations from two new Open Society European Policy Institute publications about, respectively, factors driving labor exploitation in European agriculture and how to boost transparency in agri-food value chains.
Activists in the disability justice and mad movements discuss why expansion of traditional (coercive and over-reliant on medication) mental health services is not the answer to police brutality and criminal justice reform.
Maya Wiley speaks with Eric Alterman about his new book, a history of presidential lying that reveals how our standards for truthfulness have eroded—and why Trump's lies are especially dangerous.
A panel of experts will examine the ways governments and their police forces continue to prosecute the war on drugs as the world is gripped by COVID-19 and roiled by protests against police brutality and racism.
This live-streamed event will feature musical performances, remarks from the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, and short video clips from advocates for people with albinism from around the world.
How can we develop a better, rights-respecting approach to security in a post COVID-19 world?
Elizabeth Shackelford, who resigned from the U.S. State Department in protest of the Trump administration, discusses her new book with Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger and Open Society’s Tom Perriello and Sarah Margon.
Peter Andreas discusses his book Killer High, which tells the story of war through the lens of six psychoactive drugs: alcohol, tobacco, caffeine, opium, amphetamines, and cocaine.
Open Society’s screening of the first feature-length documentary using the lens of harm reduction to examine the methadone clinic system will feature a Q&A with co-director Helen Redmond.
