The transformation of the Open Society Foundations in Africa is progressing rapidly as the Africa Regional Office and our four separate foundations—Open Society Foundation for South Africa, Open Society Initiative for Eastern Africa, Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa, and Open Society Initiative for West...
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The transformation of the Open Society Foundations in Africa is progressing rapidly as the Africa Regional Office and our four separate foundations—Open Society Foundation for South Africa, Open Society Initiative for Eastern Africa, Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa, and Open Society Initiative for West...
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As the world races against time in search of a vaccine to attend to the Covid-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, one cannot help but feel that the more things change around access to medicines, the more they stay the same. The search for a vaccine has re-ignited...
Read MoreNew York/ London, 19 July 2021 A group of philanthropic funds and investors led by the Soros Economic Development Fund (SEDF), with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is today announcing the launch of Global Access Health (GAH), a social enterprise that will seek...
Read MoreKinshasa, 26 January 2021 The "Congo is not for sale" (CNPAV) campaign, denounces the license granted by the Trump administration to Dan Gertler, allowing him to conduct transactions with American entities for one year. We call on the new U.S. President Joe Biden to take a...
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I want to express my profound gratitude to the organisers for the honour and privilege granted to me to deliver the 2020 Annual Lecture under the theme: Hate Speech and its Impact on Transitional Justice. I feel scarcely qualified to do so but will endeavour to...
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Archaic colonial-era laws such as being a “Rogue and Vagabond”, and “Idle and Disorderly Persons”, “Loitering”, or “Wandering” (collectively “Vagrancy Laws”) can be found in criminal statutes or municipal ordinances of nearly every country in Africa, including many in the southern Africa region....
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And so it ends, a year that will forever be memorable as one filled with disruption, anxiety, pain, loss and also, hope. It is the kind of hope that we saw manifest in our grantees, partners and like-minded institutions and organisations we work with and...
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5th October was World Teachers’ Day. The theme for this year could not be any more relevant than it currently is – Teachers: Leading in crisis, reimagining the future. Indeed, when the world faced the greatest health challenge of our lifetime in the last eighty years, our definition of who are heroes was revolutionised. Instead of celebrating...
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As the world races against time in search of a vaccine to attend to the Covid-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, one cannot help but feel that the more things change around access to medicines, the more they stay the same. The search for a vaccine has re-ignited...
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