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Talking About Race: A Conversation with Beverly Tatum and Sonja Santelises

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The Failures and Future of the International Criminal Court

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Women in Prison: The Devastating Impact of Rising Incarceration in the Americas

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Madness and Human Rights: Ideas about the Past and Future of Mental Health Treatment

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Celebrating 20 Years of Open Society Institute–Baltimore with Patrick Gaspard and the 2018 Open Society Institute Community Fellows

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Book Launch—American Islamophobia: Understanding the Roots and Rise of Fear

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Education in Emergencies: Exploring Innovation, Opportunities, and Challenges

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Is the Human Rights Movement in Crisis?

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Reimagining Drug Policy Through Artistic Expression: Museums, Marches, and More

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Book Launch—Hate: Why We Should Resist It with Free Speech, Not Censorship

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Book Launch—Some Kind of Justice: The ICTY’s Impact in Bosnia and Serbia

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The Future of Coca Industrialization in Colombia: A Pathway to Development and Peace

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The Global Pain Crisis: Narrowing the Gap in Access to Palliative Care

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Aftershock—A Journey into Eastern Europe’s Broken Dreams: John Feffer in Conversation with Tina Rosenberg

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Images and Democracy: Photography and Shaping Contemporary South African Culture

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Collateral Repair Project on the Refugee Crisis in Jordan—Stories from the Field

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The Rise of Fake News and Social Media Manipulation in Latin American Politics

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Book Launch—The Peacemaker’s Paradox: Pursuing Justice in the Shadow of Conflict

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Book Launch—International Scholarships in Higher Education: Pathways for Social Change

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Righting Carceral Feminism’s Wrongs in a #MeToo Era

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The Wall and the Gate: Israel, Palestine, and the Legal Battle for Human Rights

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Drugs and the Darknet: Challenges and Opportunities

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Saving Bosnia: Looking Back at George Soros’s $50 Million Intervention After 25 Years

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Incitement on Trial: Prosecuting International Speech Crimes

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Human Rights and the Rise of Populism in Europe

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The Collapse of Cambodian Democracy and the Khmer Rouge Tribunal

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Policing Black Bodies: Do Black Lives Matter? A Conversation about Policing in Brazil and the United States

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Policing the Black Man: A Conversation with Angela J. Davis and Sherrilyn Ifill

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Locking Up Our Own: James Forman Jr. in Conversation with Khalil Gibran Muhammad

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Impacts of Strategic Litigation on Indigenous Peoples’ Land Rights

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Talking About Race—Rethinking Crime and Punishment in Black America: A Conversation with James Forman Jr.

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Corruption, Jobs, and the Arms Trade: Indefensible Book Launch and Panel Discussion

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Public Health in a Populist Moment

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Talking About Race—Civil Rights in the Trump Era: Lessons from History

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Assassination of a Saint

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Getting Respect: Responding to Stigma and Discrimination in the United States, Brazil, and Israel

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The Politics of Evidence-Based Policymaking

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Five Ideas to Fight For: How Our Freedom Is Under Threat and Why It Matters

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How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything

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Fueling Economic Advancement and Empowerment Through Land Rights

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The Museum of Drug Policy: A New Approach

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The Museum of Drug Policy: Faith Leaders

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The Museum of Drug Policy: A Presidential Visit

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The Museum of Drug Policy: Authors on the Issues

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The Museum of Drug Policy: Southern Stories

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The Museum of Drug Policy: A Mother’s Loss

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Changing Constitutional Law in the Post-Scalia Era: Lessons from the Past for the Future

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The Impact of Drug Policies on Women

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Fifteen Years of Fighting Terror: Lessons for the 2016 U.S. Presidential Candidates

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With Targets on Their Backs: Providing Health Care in Conflicts Without Rules

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Talking Nonsense (and Benefiting from it): A Conversation with Jamie Holmes

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City of Thorns: A Conversation with Ben Rawlence

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The Impact of Drug Policy on the Environment

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Strategic Litigation Impacts: Global Narratives About Social Change

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Drugs and the Death Penalty: Capital Punishment and Global Drug Control

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Provocateur, Genius, Scoundrel: A Frank Discussion with the Inimitable Gleb Pavlovsky

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Quo Vadis: Ukraine? A Conversation with Two Leading Experts

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Lords of Secrecy: The National Security Elite and America’s Stealth Warfare

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Whistleblowing, Classification, and the U.S. Public Interest: What Reforms Are Possible?

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Modern Albania: From Dictatorship to Democracy

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Crime Fighting, Perverted: Interpol and Authoritarian Regimes

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Digital Echoes: Understanding Patterns of Mass Violence with Data and Statistics

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From the Front Lines in Ferguson: A Conversation about Policing, Race, and Justice

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Victories and Challenges for Media Defense: A Conversation with Media Legal Defense Initiative

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School Discipline Book Launch with Dan Losen and Marsha Weissman

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Trials, Tribulations, and Tantalizing Possibilities in the New Ukraine

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Sex, Drugs, and Canadian Politics: Advancing Human Rights for Sex Workers and People Who Use Drugs

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Drugs Courts: A Fresh Approach or a Continuation of the Old Paradigm?

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The Long and Difficult Struggle for Accountability for Great Crimes: The Guatemala Case

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Stalin/Putin: Geopolitics, Power, Ideas

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Solving Wicked Problems: Lessons on Systems Change from Diverse Fields

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Disappearances in Mexico: A Report From the Legal Team for the 43 Students Abducted in Iguala

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Propaganda Revisited: A Look at Current Practice in Russia and Egypt

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Games for Change

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The Pitfalls of Peacebuilding: Lessons from Kyrgyzstan, Prospects for Ukraine

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Count the Costs of the “War on Drugs”

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Higher Education for Refugees in the Horn of Africa

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UN Special Rapporteur Kishore Singh on Privatization in Education

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Presumption of Guilt: The Global Overuse of Pretrial Detention

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Erosion of Media Freedom in the Balkans: Shadows of the Nineties

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The Unintended Consequences of Right to Information

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Art and Conflict in the Arab Region

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Triumphs of Dalit People Against Discrimination: An Insider View

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Freedom Summer: 50 Years and Beyond

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Updates from Ukraine: Implications of a "Post-Maidan" Environment for Open Society

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Value and Impact of Strategic Litigation: Fool’s Paradise or Indispensable Weapon?

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Privacy, Censorship, and the “Right to Be Forgotten” in the Digital Age

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Vetting of UN Peacekeepers: Reportage From the Ground

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The Cultural War on Terror: Race, Policy, and Propaganda

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Human Rights and an Alternative to Traditional Debate

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The Rouhani Administration, One Year On

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The Problem with Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives

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China and Tiananmen 25 Years On: Does Authoritarianism Pay?

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Social Mobilization and Strategic Litigation for Equal Education in South Africa

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The American Legacy in Afghanistan

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The Future of International Justice

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How Can We Use Data for Social Good?

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LGBTI Rights and the Global Culture Wars

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From Nuremberg to Syria: One Man’s Search for Justice

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The Maidan, Crimea, and the East: Evolving Human Rights Challenges in Ukraine