Who are sex workers, and why do the Open Society Foundations support their struggle for rights?
If serious progress is ever going to be achieved in overcoming extreme poverty, the poor must enjoy the rule of law and functioning institutions of justice—otherwise money will continue to flow towards the powerful.
Many people with disabilities live in facilities that segregate them from society and deprive them of choice in decisions that affect their lives. Instead, community-based support and housing can offer independence and hope.
Amid ongoing conflict, Ukraine’s civil society is working hard to enable reforms; support independent, accurate reporting; and help thousands of displaced people.
The vast majority of trans people around the world cannot obtain official documents that match their gender identity or chosen name because there is no clear legal process for them to do so in their countries.
Harm reduction refers to a range of services and policies that lessen the adverse consequences of drug use and protect public health. The Open Society Foundations support efforts to advance harm reduction around the globe.
How we treat newcomers should reflect the values of fairness and equality that define the United States as a country.
Poorly designed drug laws that seek to punish production, use, and even dependence have fueled violence and health crises around the world. It’s time for a new approach.
Despite the fact that it is unlawful and ineffective, ethnic profiling—the targeting of specific individuals or groups based on appearance—continues in Europe and the United States. Find out how we’re working to combat it.
Learn about the Roma struggle for equality and justice in Europe, and how the Open Society Foundations are partnering with Roma to support change.
This alternative publishing model brings the results of scholarly research to unprecedented numbers of scientists, patients, inventors, academics, and others.
Many people have heard of the “global gag rule,” but what it actually does—and why it fails women and those who want fewer unsafe abortions—is less understood. This explainer answers some basic and crucial questions.
Secrecy and ignorance fuel the discrimination intersex people face throughout the world. This explainer answers some common questions about intersex people and the movement to secure their rights.
The use of big data to make inferences and decisions about our lives has consequences, affecting people’s access to credit, housing, jobs, and more.
How drug control laws keep millions of patients from getting the medicines they need.
When all children, regardless of their differences, are educated together, everyone benefits.
While it remains contested as to what the term exactly means, Islamophobia in Europe manifests itself through individual attitudes and behaviors, and the policies and practices of organizations and institutions.
During World War II, the Nazis and their collaborators killed hundreds of thousands of Roma men, women, and children across German-occupied Europe.
The sale of pillaged natural resources fuels war. Businesses that knowingly trade in pillaged goods are accessories to war crime and should be prosecuted as such.
The Roma are Europe’s largest and most disadvantaged ethnic minority in Europe. Improving political participation concerns every group underrepresented in or excluded from political decisions that affect their lives.
