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Open Society Institute and the Soros Foundations Network SORO SOROS FOUNDATIONS NETWORK REPORT 2008 S FOUNDATION S N ETWORK R Human Rights EPORT 2008 Justice Accountability WE ARE . This annual report describes 2008 activities of the Open Society Institute and the Soros foundations network. For daily reports about open society issues, go to OSI’s website, www.soros.org. SOROS FOUNDATIONS NETWORK REPORT 2008 Copyright © 2009 by the Open Society Institute 400 West 59th Street, New York, NY 10019 USA www.soros.org All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form. COVER PHOTOGRAPHY CREDITS TOP LEFT Pamela Chen, “We Are Roma,” page 30 TOP RIGHT Karen Robinson, “We Are British,” page 38 BOTTOM LEFT Aubrey Wade, “We Are Mauritanians,” page 6 BOTTOM RIGHT Jon Anderson, “We Are Dominicans,” page 20 Complete photography credits appear on page 96. SOROS FOUNDATIONS NETWORK REPORT 2008 2 President’s Message A Celebration of Ongoing Work 6 WE ARE MAURITANIANS 14 Securing Citizenship for Millions of Stateless People 20 WE ARE DOMINICANS 28 Dominican by Birth, Haitian in Name Only 30 WE ARE ROMA 34 Roma Health Scholars Learn to Help Their People 38 WE ARE BRITISH 46 Human Rights and Justice 50 Public Health 54 Education, Information, and Media 58 Other Programs 60 U.S. Programs 64 OPEN SOCIETY IN EASTERN EUROPE 70 Europe 74 Asia 77 Middle East and North Africa 78 Africa 82 Latin America and the Caribbean 84 Open Society Institute 88 Expenditures 90 Directory 96 Credits President’s Message A Celebration of Ongoing Work Thirty years ago George Soros began supporting efforts to promote open society. Five years later he established a foundation in Hungary which signaled the start of the distinctive network that now operates in all parts of the globe. PHOTOGRAph BY KAREN ROBINSON Community police officer, Leicester, United Kingdom Looking back over those 30 years, certain also on the discriminatory treatment accomplishments stand out. Aside from of immigrants. successes in helping to promote, through an In Central and Eastern Europe, including array of activities, the emergence of more the Balkans, a major part of our work open societies in particular countries, the has been to address both the immediate accomplishments include global leadership harms and the long-term consequences of in promoting freedom of information, discrimination against the Roma minority. budget transparency, and accountability We have also addressed problems particular for the revenues from the exploitation of to certain countries, such as discrimination natural resources; efforts to develop and make against ethnic Russians in Latvia and Estonia; effective such institutions as the Global Fund against Albanians in Macedonia; and against to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Serbs in Kosovo. the Extractive Industries Transparency In Russia, and also in Western European Initiative, and the International Criminal countries, we have worked to end ethnic Court, all of which contribute to global profiling and initiated efforts to secure legal governance on crucial issues that must be remedies against it. In recent years, we have addressed transnationally; increased access also monitored the problem of discrimination Problems associated with discrimination against minorities do not to justice both for criminal defendants and, against Muslims in some Western European in civil matters, for those not able to afford countries and we now have underway legal representation; and mitigation of the a major research and advocacy project devastating consequences of armed conflict. concerned with the situation of Muslim minorities in 11 European Union cities. Discrimination Against In African states, denial of citizenship Minorities or nationality to certain ethnic groups is Another area where we have been deeply one of our important concerns. In other engaged—and where we have had some parts of the world, we have focused efforts successes, though the challenges that continue on discrimination against other minority to confront us are very great—is the effort to communities such as the Palestinians in Israel, mitigate the effects of discrimination against Dominicans of Haitian ancestry, and the minorities. This aim is central to our work in Burmese in Thailand. many places. It has been a dominant theme of the Open Society Institute’s programs in Discrimination in Open Societies the United States where, from the start, we This year’s annual report highlights some of have focused on the particular harm done to the activities the network has undertaken minorities by the criminal justice system and to address discrimination against minorities SOROS FOUNDATIONS NETWORK REPORT 2008 4 in a number of countries. The issue plays by minorities in the United States, and such a large role in our work because the supported programs that assist migrants in the problems associated with discrimination process of becoming citizens. We have directly against minorities do not necessarily diminish engaged in precedent-setting litigation when countries make transitions from to challenge discriminatory practices and repressive regimes to more open societies. created legal programs to support this work; On the contrary, it is sometimes the case—as conducted training programs for local officials with respect to the Roma in the former on governance of multiethnic communities; communist countries of Central and Eastern sponsored arts programs to promote cultural Europe—that there are actually more expression by minorities; supported minority opportunities in relatively open societies media; and sponsored economic development for demagogues to exploit hostility against programs focused on minorities—to name minorities for their own political purposes. only a few efforts. Another common aspect of discrimination Underlying these activities, of course, is against minorities is also a significant concern a belief that an essential characteristic of an at this time: discriminatory practices tend open society is that all people count equally to increase during periods of financial and that all should enjoy equal opportunities. crisis. Resentment against migrants may be Virtually every component of the network particularly acute in such a crisis because has been engaged in these efforts. In some they are seen as competitors for scarce jobs. areas, progress is frustratingly difficult; in necessarily diminish when countries make transitions from repressive regimes to more open societies. Also, minorities who have suffered from discrimination and marginalization may be stereotyped as disproportionate consumers of others, we have made substantial headway. social services. That progress is possible was, of course, affirmed in a spectacular way when a black Efforts to Mitigate man with the name Barack Hussein Obama Discrimination was elected as president of the United States. The Open Society Institute has engaged Speaking personally as someone who was in a wide range of activities to mitigate involved in the civil rights struggle in the discrimination. We have supported education United States half a century ago, I did not programs for Roma ranging from early believe then that such a thing was possible in childhood to postgraduate training in my lifetime and still find myself amazed by professional disciplines, and launched this achievement. programs to ensure that the Roma obtain access to health services. We have established ARYEH NEIER debate programs at urban schools attended June 2009 SOROS FOUNDATIONS NETWORK REPORT 2008 5 WE ARE MAURITANIANS The Open Society Institute is fighting for every person’s right to citizenship, opposing the power of state authorities to exclude anyone they dislike for their race, ethnicity, politics, sexual orientation, gender, or religion. PHOTOGRAphs BY AuBREY WADE Returning Mauritanians, Lisse Rosso, Mauritania Exiled Mauritanians in Dagana, Senegal SOROS FOUNDATIONS NETWORK REPORT 2008 10 Returning Mauritanians in the temporary settlement of Lisse Rosso Returned Mauritanians in the village of Medina Salam Securing Citizenship for Millions of Stateless People MAHMOUT Diagne AND HIS family called Lisse Rosso. There, in September were expelled in 1989 from their country, 2008, as he reclined on a mat spread beside Mauritania, and informed by their a tent he was sharing with his wife and nine government that they were no longer children, Diagne talked about his life. He Mauritanian. Indeed, in its public rhetoric had no job. His family’s food had nearly run of Arab nationalism, the Mauritanian state out. And the dry season was approaching. suggested that the Diagne family, and Yet Diagne felt his struggle was worth it. the approximately 75,000 other black For almost two decades, he had lingered in Mauritanians expelled with them, had never forced exile in Senegal with no identification been Mauritanian in the first place. card, no passport, no right to vote, no legal The Diagnes joined the ranks of the standing to hold a job or travel freely. Now, stateless, who today number at least 12 by persevering in Lisse Rosso, it seemed, million worldwide. Statelessness can be Mahmout Diagne might regain from his perpetrated as part of an ethnic cleansing homeland legal recognition that he and his exercise, as in the Mauritanian case, where family were citizens in every sense. states legally disown the citizens they do not want, expelling people, confiscating and destroying their ID cards. But statelessness Who Is a Citizen? can also be perpetrated through years of The Open Society Justice Initiative supports
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