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Buy A Bride: Roma Girls Glam Up For Bridal Market

AFP | Diana Simeonova | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Romanies, Marriage, Roma Community, Roma, Romani Gypsies, Bulgaria, Mogila, Teen Girls, Bride Market, Open Society Institute, World News

MOGILA, Bulgaria -- The first Saturday in Lent feels like any other market day in this tiny village in central Bulgaria, but fruit and vegetable stall...

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Soros on Egypt and America's Complicity in Egyptian Nightmares

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Palestine, Open Society, Suez Canal, Oil and Energy, George Soros, Human Rights, Totalitarian Regimes, Middle East, Egypt, Democracy, Open Society Institute, Israel, Self Determination, Torture, Politics News
Steve Clemons

America does not have a magic wand to turn totalitarian regimes into well-functioning democracies, but there are times when the balance in America's strategic relationships must shift toward the vital importance of popular will.

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"Progressive Hunter" Jailhouse Confession: How the Right-Wing Media and Glenn Beck's Chalkboard Drove Byron Williams to Plot Assassination

John Hamilton | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fox News, Michael Savage, Glenn Beck, George Soros, Byron Williams, Tides Foundation, Open Society Institute, Video, Media News
John Hamilton

Fifteen years after militia-movement-inspired bombers killed 168 people in the Oklahoma City federal building, right-wing domestic terror plots are a fact of life in America.

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U.S. Urges Allies To Investigate WikiLeaks

The Huffington Post | Doug Sarro | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Afghanistan, Flood Aid, Pakistan, Amnesty International, Pakistan Floods, Julian Assange, Taliban, NATO @Y:World, Open Society Institute, Al Qaeda, World News

Today's AfPak round-up: WikiLeaks clashes with rights groups. Five leading human rights groups, including Amnesty International and George Soros's ...

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A New Kind of Investing: The Philanthropy Secretariat in Liberia

Rahim Kanani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Social Change, Social Impact, Daphne Foundation, Global Philanthropy Forum, Poverty, Trust Africa, War, Liberia, Philanthropy Secretariat, Open Society Institute, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Investors, NoVo Foundation, Chronicle of Philanthropy, Philanthropy, Clinton Global Initiative, Humanity-United, World Affairs Council, Donors, Mccall-Macbain, Fundraising, Development, World News
Rahim Kanani

After 14 years of civil war, Liberia's democracy is just beginning to turn a new page, and a group of strategic international philanthropists are hoping to play a role in catalyzing that process.

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Fix Night Raids in Afghanistan

Jonathan Horowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gardez, Afghanistan, Detentions, Night Raids, Open Society Institute, Counterinsurgency, Khost, World News
Jonathan Horowitz

While international forces in Afghanistan have killed fewer civilians in 2009 than in previous years many Afghans still feel abused and angry. One of the main reasons is night raids.

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My Pride and Hope for Haiti

Michèle Pierre-Louis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Haiti Relief, Haiti Earthquake, Haiti Relief Efforts, Haiti, Haiti Disaster Relief, Haiti Poverty, Haiti Earthquake Relief, Michele Pierre-Louis, Open Society Institute, Haiti Aid, Impact News
Michèle Pierre-Louis

As I sift through the ruins of my home, I have hope. I am more convinced now than ever that we will put Haiti back together -- not as it was but as it should be.

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UK Muslims Are Europe's Most Patriotic

Times Online | Chris Gourlay | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Islamophobia, UK, Islam, George Soros, Britain, United Kingdom, Islam Europe, Open Society Institute, Europe, World News

Muslims in Britain are the most patriotic in Europe -- but more than a quarter in some parts of the country still do not feel British, according to a ...

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ACLU Loses $20 Million Donor, Said To Be David Gelbaum

New | STEPHANIE STROM | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Aclu, Civil Liberties, Sierra Club, Philanthrophy, Quercus Trust, Madoff, Economy, David Gelbaum, Religious Freedom, Equal Rights, Funding, Anonymous Donor, Quercus, Open Society Institute, Politics News

A longtime anonymous donor to the American Civil Liberties Union has withdrawn his annual gift of more than $20 million, punching a 25 percent hole in...

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If Skip Gates Lived in China and Other Stories of Racial Profiling Around the World

Phillip Martin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama Gates, Ethnic Profiling, Uighurs, Skin Color, Skip Gates, Open Society Institute, Racial Profiling, Politics News
Phillip Martin

In many parts of China, without the protection of an American passport, Ivy League credentials, diplomatic status or fame, dark skinned people find themselves branded as a drug dealers or worse.

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Somalia Focus: Q&A On Pirates, Politics, and Poverty

Susan Ryan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Somalia, Abducted, Somalia Pirates, Ransom Somalia, Soros, Somalia and Kenya, Conflict in Somalia, Abducted Somalia, Open Society Institute, Somalia Kidnapping, Aid Agencies Somalia, Somali Pirates, Humanitarian Work Somalia, Piracy, Ngos, Government of Somalia, Somali Kidnappings, Somali NGOs, Steve Hansch, Kidnapped Somalia, Slideshow, World News
Susan Ryan

A gang takes people hostage and hopes it will make them millionaires because the government of those hostages will step in and pay the ransom. Governments have created a market.

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Delivering Social Good via Technology as Economy Collapses

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Carnegie Corporation, Golden Venture Film, Bill Clinton, Thought Leader, Pro Bono Assistance, Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, Open Society Institute, Mark O'Brien, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe, Pro Bono Lawyers, Chronicle of Philanthropy, LawHelp.Org, Michael Hertz, Immigration Advocates Network, Tribeca Film Festival, The Golden Venture, Pro Bono Net, Elite Imaging & Discovery, Kirkland & Ellis, Stephen Chen, Legal Aid Societies, Pro Se, Pro Bono Manager, Manatt Phelps & Phillips, Debevoise & Plimpton, Soros Foundation, Gates Foundation, Linklaters, World News
Jim Luce

As the economy continues to spiral downward, the need for that long-cherished legal concept of pro bono assistance to those with growing legal problems has skyrocketed.

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From Guantanamo to Accountability and Beyond

Arlene M. Roberts | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Geneva Conventions, Human Rights Center, Presidential Powers, Office of the Pardon Attorney, US Accountability Project, Interrogation, Jonathan Mahler, Carolyn Patty Blum, Presidential Pardons, Open Society Institute, Military Commissions, Detention, The Challenge, International Center for Transitional Justice, Center for Constitutional Rights, Human Rights Violations, International Human Rights, Civil Liberties, Military Tribunals, Aclu, Pardons, Eric Stover, Laurel Fletcher, Osi, Politics News
Arlene M. Roberts

President-elect Obama made known his intention to close the Guantanamo detention facility. The projected closure raises a plethora of issues.

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