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At Open Society is a video series highlighting the people and ideas that are inspiring our work—and changing the world. Brought to you by the Open Society Foundations, working to build vibrant and tolerant democracies whose governments are accountable to their citizens.
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34 EpisodenEnsuring Legal Access for Palestinians
Munir Nuseibah, director of Al-Quds University’s Community Action Center, explains how a scholarship helped him become a more effective human rights a...
The Intersex Human Rights Fund’s Vital Work
Intersex Human Rights Fund’s Ruth Baldacchino explains how, in the face of prejudice, discrimination, and abuse, intersex people are speaking up for t...
Making Accountability Count
Blair Glencorse, founder and executive director of Acountability Lab, explains how his organization is working to build a healthy civil society where...
An Early Investment in Syrian Refugee Children
Sherrie Westin of the Sesame Workshop discusses a partnership with the International Rescue Committee, the MacArthur Foundation, and the Open Society...
A Brazil Where All Lives Are Respected
Douglas Belchior, one of the founders of the antidiscrimination group UNEafro, explains why reform in Brazil is so needed—and offers a vision of a bet...
Putting Maré on the Map
Maira Gabriel Anhorn discusses how the local development association Redes de Maré is helping the residents of Rio de Janeiro’s largest favela fight f...
Intersex Children Don’t Need to Be “Fixed”
For too long, intersex people have lived under the weight of social stigma and personal shame. Kimberly Zieselman, director of the advocacy group inte...
When Theater Is a Crime
The Belarus Free Theatre has long been a monument to democracy and human rights—and the target of one of the world’s worst dictatorships. Cofounder Na...
A New and Better Model for Funding Trans Activists
Trans activists around the world are fighting for their rights, but a critical shortage of funding stands in their way. Broden Giambrone, director of...
How Reproductive Justice Serves as a Model for Progressive Organizing
Groundswell Fund’s Naa Hammond explains why reproductive justice is about more than just reproductive rights—it also means addressing race, class, sex...
Taiwan on the Brink of Marriage Equality
After a decade-long campaign, Taiwan is on the verge of becoming the first place in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage. Jennifer Lu, research fellow a...
Busting the Drug Addiction Myth
Dr. Carl Hart has spent his career studying the effects of drugs on the human brain. The science shows us that a fear-based approach to fighting addic...
Life in a Quantified Society
Big data is being used to make decisions about virtually every aspect of our lives, affecting people’s access to credit, housing, jobs, and more. Juli...
Protecting Death Row’s Most Vulnerable in Pakistan
Executions in Pakistan are surging, and an estimated 60 percent of death row inmates are innocent. Sarah Belal, founder and director of Justice Projec...
The Problem with Criminalizing Sex Workers’ Clients
There’s a growing trend among countries to make it a crime to purchase sex work, but not to sell it, effectively criminalizing the client but not the...
Subverting the Media to Boost Support for LGBTI Rights
In a country where LGBTI individuals remain a persecuted minority, activist Mima Simić believes that by countering media messaging, advocates can infl...
Brazil Can Fight the Zika Virus with Better Public Policy
In Brazil, where abortion is illegal, the mosquito-borne Zika virus is raising anew the issue of reproductive rights and the health consequences of po...
Vancouver Has Pioneered a People-First Approach to Drug Issues
At the city’s Insite facility, people who use drugs can self-inject in a safe, supervised environment using clean equipment. And it’s the only place i...
To Reduce Its Homicide Rate, Latin America Must “Denormalize” Violence
Home to nearly one-third of the world’s homicides, Central and South America have become desensitized to violence. Refocusing public perception could...
Israeli Soldiers Break Their Silence on the Gaza Conflict
A group of veterans who fought in the Palestinian Territories are testifying about what they did with the goal of making Israeli society face up to it...
How Drug Companies and Bad Patents Put Lives at Risk
By exploiting the patent system, Big Pharma makes lifesaving medicines unaffordable to many in need. Tahir Amin, co-director of the Initiative for Med...
Looking Differently at Disability and Decision Making
Michael Bach of the Institute for Research and Development on Inclusion and Society discusses how “supported decision making” can allow those with dis...
How California Is Reducing Its Prison Population
Lenore Anderson of Californians for Safety and Justice reflects on Prop 47 and the hard work still ahead. (Published: March 24, 2015)
A Freedom You Can’t Take for Granted
Why should you care about the right to free expression? Ask someone whose book was banned. (Published: August 28, 2013)
Building an Open Burma Through Medical Ethics
Professor Myaing Myaing Nyunt says that something as simple as teaching doctors and students about consent forms will encourage democratic transition....
Democracy Is More Than Just Holding Elections
Wouldn’t you like to give those in power a report card? This is what citizen engagement looks like, and it’s possible for all of us, according to John...
How Tunisia Can Be an Example of Good Governance to the Region—and Beyond
Many consider Tunisia to be the first democratic Arab country in the region. But democracy can’t succeed without the informed efforts of its citizens....
A Lesson in Equality 40 Years in the Making
In South Africa, 75 percent of the country’s young people are in poorly performing and under-resourced schools, perpetuating a system of social and ec...
A Young Filmmaker Shares His Past to Overcome It
Richard Memminger was born dependent on crack cocaine; his mother was addicted to drugs. Documentary filmmaking gave him the ability to tell his story...
We Can’t Arrest Our Way Out of the Drug Problem
Sending people to prison for low-level, nonviolent drug offenses doesn’t work. That’s why the Seattle Police Department launched an innovative program...
Overcoming Barriers in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
For many Palestinians, getting to the next town—to go to work, to a hospital, to school—may as well be going to the other side of the moon. Sari Bashi...
The Tool for Success Every Student Should Have
Jake Hayman wants to improve your social networks—and he doesn’t mean Facebook and Twitter. He believes every student deserves successful mentors—not...
Torture: It Can Happen Anywhere
Torture doesn’t happen only in interrogation rooms. Sometimes it takes place where you might least expect it. Juan Méndez, UN Special Rapporteur on To...
Why Do People Stereotype Black Men? Ask Your Brain.
We create stereotypes, quick references, to help us navigate the world, says Alexis McGill Johnson of the American Values Institute. One of those ster...