Open Society Foundations
- Barbara Crossette
- • October 13, 2021
Nearly 200 students from Afghanistan, escaping the Taliban’s tightening grip on education, have been safely evacuated from Kabul under an ambitious plan led by the American University of Central Asia and the Kyrgyzstan government. About 60 percent of the…
- Barbara Crossette
- • October 17, 2019
A group of civil society organizations is warning that a growing global movement to decriminalize and rebrand prostitution as “sex work” could lead to more, not less, violence against the world’s most vulnerable women and girls. The critics are…
- Categories: Human Trafficking, Women
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • November 20, 2015
In time for Universal Children’s Day, a new report shows how the war on drugs hurts children’s health, puts them into the line of fire amid drug-gang violence and leads them into the netherworld of human trafficking and enslavement….
- Categories: Gender Violence, Health and Population, Human Trafficking, Latin America, Poverty
- Sierra Ortega
- • September 17, 2013
Radislav Krstic was indicted on Oct. 30, 1998, by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia for his role in the July 1995 Srebrenica massacre in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Krstic was the deputy commander and chief of staff of the…
- Categories: ICC, International Justice
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • May 24, 2013
Burma’s major moves toward liberalization and release from the vise of its military grip signal huge strides toward democracy, yet nothing in this long-isolated, mineral-endowed country is assured. Even as the nation branches out from its dependence on China…
- Categories: Asia, Development, Human Rights
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