The international community needs to adjust its approach to trade and investment agreements until the public interest is truly served.
Open Society President Mark Malloch-Brown on how the Foundations are retooling to tackle today’s challenges while honoring its core values.
As the global economy continues to reel from the COVID-19 pandemic, civil society groups have a rare chance to push policymakers toward bold reforms to free struggling nations from sovereign debt.
The Atlanta-area shooting was just the latest instance of rising violence against people of Asian descent. We need to understand its roots—and the intersecting factors at work—to stop hate’s spread.
The Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz explains how policymakers on the international level can make sure that the post-pandemic recovery doesn't make economic injustice even worse.
It’s true that sanctions disrupt the plans of wealthy autocrats. But to implement them in a moral and ethical way, policymakers must establish clear rules and oversight.
Even though it passed with fanfare nearly a year ago, Mexico’s government has yet to enforce an amnesty bill that offered hope to many indigenous people who did not receive a fair trial in the first place.
To celebrate Women’s Herstory Month, Open Society is sharing 10 stories from women whose power and vibrancy are helping to fuel a global movement for gender justice.
Thanks to a recent ruling from the United Kingdom’s highest court, Uber will now be recognized as what it has always been—an employer. This marks a significant step forward for workers’ rights in the gig economy.
In Guatemala, women with disabilities face exclusion, stigmatization, and worse. Thankfully, one collective, Mujeres Con Capacidad de Soñar a Colores, is responding through research, organizing, and art.
Throughout the world, and despite decades of being marginalized and ignored, indigenous women and communities are organizing to demand the systemic injustices of climate change be addressed.
The horror stories emanating from Guantanamo Bay shock the conscience. It is long past time to close the prison.
Overnight we have watched astonishing scenes as hundreds of thugs incited by a criminal president invaded a country’s legislative chambers and caused mayhem and death in an effort to overturn the result of a democratic election.
Despite all we have learned about how to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus, the government of Mexico is still doing far too little to protect the health of the people in the country’s jails and prisons.
Rather than shift the blame onto individuals who are forced to make impossible choices, policymakers should confront the virus through systemic reforms that center racial justice and public health.
By helping low-income countries with policy challenges relating to sovereign debt, tax dodging, and workers’ rights, the United States can begin to repair its alliances and reputation.
As a new survey of public opinion in the United States and multiple European countries shows, the public, despite being overwhelmed with misinformation, nevertheless supports governmental action to address the looming climate crisis.
Few people in Britain have been more upended by the pandemic than migrant women. Thankfully, grassroots organizations like the Latin American Women’s Rights Service are helping this community find solidarity and strength.
Despite the clear, unfair, and gendered implications of global COVID-19 outbreaks, too many policymakers’ responses are failing to account for the needs of women and girls. Now is the time to demand better.
While conventional wisdom promotes laissez-faire trade policy, the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic has shown that the dominant paradigm is in need of a serious reevaluation.
