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Voices January 30, 2017 Miguel Lago & Guilherme Pimentel

The New Phone-Based Tool That Lets Brazilians Monitor State Violence

DefeZap collects and catalogs user-submitted videos of state violence, then makes sure the authorities take action.

Voices January 27, 2017 Marc Krupanski & Leonard Noisette

What the Trump Administration Needs to Know about Law Enforcement

A recent statement from the Trump administration suggests a misunderstanding about how community safety and effective law enforcement work.

Voices January 26, 2017 Andrzej Mirga

How a Holocaust Commemoration Can Be a Starting Point for Today’s Roma Advocacy

When a critical mass of Roma citizens learn their history, they can forge their own sense of identity—and use it to inform their activism.

Voices January 26, 2017 Nicole Kakantoussi & Marios Atzemis

Greece’s Public Health Crisis Is Hitting Migrants Especially Hard

Two of the country’s most pressing challenges—migration and rising HIV rates—often affect the same people. One organization is tackling both.

Voices January 25, 2017 Alex Bookbinder

The University That’s Educating—and Empowering—Women from across Asia

Critical thinking reigns at the Asian University for Women, where students get the kind of education usually found at small liberal arts schools.

Voices January 17, 2017 Manos Moschopoulos

How One Man Made Greece a More Welcoming Place for Refugees

When Vasilis Tsartsanis noticed Syrian refugees arriving in his town, he decided to help them, an act of kindness that would change their lives—and his own.

Voices January 13, 2017 Nick Glynn

Why Cologne’s Police Shouldn’t Brag About Racially Profiling 900 New Year’s Eve Revelers

Stopping violence requires good intelligence—provided by people who trust the police.

Voices January 12, 2017 Kristen Bell

“You Showed Us What Hope Looked Like”

How a 92-year-old Holocaust survivor helped a group of incarcerated men find a reason to keep fighting.

Voices January 11, 2017 Christine Chamoun

The Lebanese Nationality Law That Leaves Children Stateless

A generation of children will grow up without a country because Lebanese mothers with foreign-born husbands cannot pass on their nationality to their children.

Voices January 11, 2017 Ariel Kogan & Ana Carolina Evangelista

Brazil’s Groundbreaking Attempt to Get Corporate Money Out of City Politics

In 2016, for the first time, all private-sector campaign financing for municipal elections came exclusively from individuals.

Voices January 9, 2017

Q&A: A New Way to Access Higher Education for—and by—Displaced Syrians

A new initiative harnesses the knowledge of Syria’s dispersed academic community to help other displaced Syrians continue their higher education.

Voices January 5, 2017 Chris Stone

Against Ambivalence

Living in uncertain times is no excuse to relax our commitment to open societies—indeed, it obligates us to work harder than ever.

Voices January 4, 2017 Faisal Bari

The Stabilizing Power of School for Children with Disabilities in Pakistan

Pakistan’s inclusive education programs are still in the pilot stage, but provincial governments hope to scale them up in the coming years.

Voices December 20, 2016 Gabriel Sipos

How One Courageous Whistle-Blower Exposed Corruption in Slovakia’s Government

The story of an ordinary civil servant turned transparency pioneer.

Voices December 19, 2016 Ken Zimmerman

Standing Together Against Hate

A progress report on the Open Society Foundations’ $10 million initiative to confront hate.

Voices December 13, 2016 Samina Naz

As Executions Surge in Pakistan, One Group Works to Protect Death Row’s Most Vulnerable

Pakistan is putting hundreds to death, including people with mental illnesses. Shifting public opinion could change that.

Voices July 7, 2016 Elisa Slattery

The Hidden Consequences of Forcing Women to Travel for Abortions

Laws that keep abortion services far from where women live are a form of social exclusion that women’s rights advocates call “abortion exile.”

Voices July 5, 2016 Naila Kabeer

Are We Undercounting Work Done by Women?

Economic surveys that don’t take into account unpaid domestic work misrepresent a society’s labor activity—and diminish work done by women.

Voices June 30, 2016 Gökçe Tüylüoğlu

Turkey’s Extraordinary Resilience in a Year of Terror

The country continues to thrive despite multiple bomb attacks, including this week’s at Istanbul’s Atatürk Airport.

Voices June 29, 2016 Joseph Amenaghawon & Udo Jude Ilo

In Nigeria, Many Anticorruption Policies—and Lots of Corruption, Too

The president has made fighting corruption a top priority. Why is progress so slow?

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