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Drug Policies Should Be Based on Public Health and Human Rights, Panelists Say

November 23, 2012

Policy must shift away from the punitive approach of the ‘war on drugs’ to treating drug use as a public health issue, according to prominent panelists at the first in a series of debates hosted by CEU’s School of Public Policy in collaboration with the Open Society Foundations’ Global Drug Policy Program.

Human Rights Make Way for Legal Empowerment, Osiatynski Says

November 20, 2012

Wiktor Osiatynski has witnessed the human rights struggle firsthand, and experienced the changing nature of that power, from the Solidarity movement in his native Poland to his role in writing constitutions for countries in democratic transition, as well as his work with the Open Society Foundations (OSF). In a lecture Nov. 15 at Central European University, Osiatynski outlined the changes in and challenges to human rights in today’s world.

Gareth Evans Says Mass Atrocity Crimes Are Everyone's Business

November 19, 2012

The Responsibility to Protect, the emerging international norm known as R2P, has marked a turning point in the prevention of major war crimes and other mass atrocities worldwide. Gareth Evans, one of the architects of the R2P principle, chronicled R2P’s development over the last decade in his 24 October CEU lecture titled “Responding to Mass Atrocity Crimes: The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) After Libya and Syria?”

CEU’s School of Public Policy Recruits Inaugural Class

November 16, 2012

Central European University’s School of Public Policy, established in September 2011, is now recruiting future leaders and change-makers from across the globe to join its inaugural Master of Public Administration class in September 2013.

Böll Foundation Expert Roundtable on EU Democracy Crisis hosted at SPP

October 12, 2012

The excessive indebtedness of many member states has plunged the EU into a crisis of confidence in which the advantages of closer European integration are no longer apparent for many, while the risks have come to the fore. The debt crisis threatens to become one of EU legitimacy. An expression of this is an upsurge in anti-integration populist movements, which have great popular appeal in several countries.