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May 20, 2015
During a strong and deeply personal Kapuscinski Development Lecture at the School of Public Policy (SPP) at Central European University (CEU) on May 7, Deepa Narayan challenged her audience to “rethink gender inequality.”
May 19, 2015

“Many people have seen pictures of the devastating accident in Dhaka, Bangladesh in April 2013 when the Rana Plaza building collapsed killing more than a thousand people,” said Daniel Szugyi (MPA ’16). “Although this incident was exceptional, accidents happen all the time in the textile industry.”

May 19, 2015

CEU’s Human RightS Initiative (HRSI) organized a day-long workshop on May 16 on Drug Policy Reform Advocacy. Led by Peter Sarosi, drug policy program director of the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU), the workshop “offered a good general introduction to the global drug control system and drug policy reform,” said Zoe Kostitsi-Papastathopoulou (MPA ’16).

May 4, 2015

“The course created a platform where dynamic and engaged people from resource-rich countries could exchange and learn from different experiences…  I enthusiastically recommend the course to any actor—policymakers, civil society activists, or private sector executives—who are involved in extractive industries,” said Zeinab Camara from Guinea. Camara was describing the two-week course that she recently completed in Budapest, Hungary.