Nov 21, 2009
Human Rights
Nov 6, 2009Summer 2009 in Chechnya, Ingushetia and Dagestan was the bloodiest in several years. Since the July murder of Natalia Estemirova, a human rights activist from Memorial, three more activists have been killed.
- Oct 28, 2009
The New European Democracies Project together with the Institute for New Democracies (IND) organized an event on Kazakhstan's OSCE Chairmanship for the year 2010. The event was held in Astana, Kazakhstan, and various experts and officials participated at this international conference.
Oct 8, 2009The United States has recently begun a debate about the need to account for policies and alleged crimes relating to counterterrorism since 9/11 and the best process for doing so: prosecution, commissions, Congressional investigation, general inquiry, something else altogether? Ambassador Tom Pickering, Vice Admiral Lee Gunn (retired), and Suzanne Spaulding led a discussion assessing these
- Sep 24, 2009
The Mesoamerican corridor has long facilitated the illegal movement of drugs north to the United States and of arms from the United States to Mexico and countries further south. Humans and endangered species also form part of the flow of illegal traffic bound for markets in the United States and beyond. Evidence suggests that the traffic of drugs, arms, people and animals in
- Sep 11, 2009
Recent events in Iran and China have demonstrated the potential of new social networking technology to help effect political change. Indeed, many overstate the influence of Web 2.0 technology on political systems, but it is still important to consider.
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- Jul 6 - 7, 2009
CSIS, together with the Eurasia Foundation and the New Eurasia Foundation, hosted a meeting in Moscow during the Obama-Medvedev summit. The meeting brought together approximately 130 American and Russian civil society leaders for two days of discussion. President Obama attended the last session of the meeting, urging a shift in how the United States engages Russian civil society.
- Jun 19, 2009
The Americas Program of the Center for Strategic and International Studies held the sixth installment in our ‘Cuba Outlook’ Series on June 19th.
Jun 19, 2009On June 19, 2009, Zalman Shoval, former Israeli ambassador to the United States, addressed a small group at CSIS on a wide range of issues affecting the U.S.-Israel relationship.
Jun 16, 2009The South Asia program hosted a discussion with Mangala Moonesinghe, a veteran Sri Lankan politician and diplomat, on the prospect of peacemaking in Sri Lanka in light of the recent government victory over the Tamil Tigers. To provide perspective for the discussion, Mr.
Jun 11, 2009The program will host a discussion with Mary Werntz, the former ICRC Head of Delegation to Nepal, on the evolving political situation in that country. Ms. Werntz will share her insights on the present and future course of Nepal as it grapples with the problems facing its new democracy, which has been in place for little more than a year.
