• Central Eurasia Project
  The Central Eurasia Project (CEP) provides information about human rights and the social and economic health of the South Caucasus and Central Asia. Some of its projects focus on the neighboring countries of Afghanistan and Pakistan as well. CEP uses grantmaking to international and indigenous NGOs to help build local capacity, bring international expertise to bear on the region, and promote cooperation between local activists and international civic movements in the fields of human rights, the environment, and transparent governance. Its ultimate goal is to strengthen civic leaders in the region and construct support networks within international structures and movements
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• East Africa Initiative (OSIEA)
  The Open Society Initiative for East Africa (OSIEA) supports and promotes public participation in democratic governance, the rule of law, and respect for human rights in Kenya by awarding grants, developing programs, and bringing together diverse civil society leaders and groups. Launched in 2005 and based in Nairobi, OSIEA is headed by Binaifer Nowrojee, a human rights advocate with extensive experience in Africa
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• EU Monitoring and Advocacy Program (EUMAP)
  EUMAP monitors the development of selected human rights and rule of law issues in both the European Union and in its candidate and potential candidate countries. The program works with national experts and nongovernmental organizations to compile reports that are distributed widely throughout Europe and internationally. EUMAP is currently focusing on the issues of access to education and employment for people with intellectual disabilities, and TV Across Europe: regulation, policy, and independence in 21 European countries. Previous EUMAP reports have focused on minority protection, judicial independence, judicial capacity, and corruption and anti-corruption policy
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• Human Rights & Governance Grants Program
  The Program provides support to nongovernmental organizations operating in the fields of human rights and governance in Europe and Central Asia. The program assists supported organizations in their growth and institutionalization; in building networks among these groups; and in developing partnerships with other donors in this field. In the area of human rights, the program supports national and international advocacy organizations promoting political and civil rights at local, national and regional levels. Priority is given to projects that address the needs of vulnerable and marginalized groups, and those that have strong monitoring and legal advocacy components
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• Information Program
  The Program aims at enhancing the ability to access, exchange, and produce knowledge and information for key open society constituencies and disadvantaged groups, especially in the poorer parts of the world. It also use new tools and techniques to empower civil society as a force for open society in national, regional and global arenas. These aims translate into projects in three focal areas, each with its own subset of initiatives: Aaccess to Knowledge; Civil Society Communication and Open Information Policy
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• Open Society Justice Initiative
  The Open Society Justice Initiative, an operational program of the Open Society Institute, promotes rights-based law reform, builds knowledge and strengthens legal capacity worldwide. Justice Initiative projects seek to shape law reform policy and achieve concrete results through hands-on technical assistance; litigation and legal advice; knowledge dissemination and network building; and counsel to donor institutions. The Justice Initiative works in the following thematic areas: national criminal justice reform; international justice; freedom of information and expression; anticorruption; equality and citizenship. Its offices are in New York, Budapest, and Abuja
  The Open Society Justice Initiative pursues law reform activities grounded in theprotection of human rights, and contributes to the development of legal capacity for opensocieties worldwide.
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• Women's Program
  The Network Women's Program (NWP) works to promote the advancement of women's human rights, gender equality, and empowerment as an integral part of the process of democratization. The program operates worldwide as a consultative and operational program, working directly with and providing technical assistance to entities inside the Soros foundations network on gender issues. Among the program's focus areas are gender sensitive education, violence against women, young women's human rights, mass media and gender policy, equal opportunities in the EU accession process, women's oral histories, Romani women's leadership, information initiatives, women's health, and women in conflict zones
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• Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
  The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace is a private, nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing cooperation between nations and promoting active international engagement by the United States. Through research, publishing, convening, and on occasion, creating new institutions and international networks, Endowment associates shape fresh policy approaches. Their interests span geographic regions and the relations among governments, business, international organizations and civil society, focusing on the economic, political, and technological forces driving global change
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• Clan Politics and Regime Transition in Central Asia
  By Kathleen Collins. This book is a study of regime transition, transformation, and state building in Central Asia, from Soviet colonization to decolonization; in particular, the book explores the informal politics that shapes these processes, the political systems that emerge, and the durability of these systems. Creating a democratic regime and creating a durable one are two issues that should be linked, yet most scholars and practitioners of the "third wave" of democracy have focused on building democratic regimes while neglecting the fundamental issue of regime stability
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• Freedom House
  Freedom House is a leading advocate of the world's young democracies that are coping with the debilitating legacies of tyranny, dictatorship, and political repression. We conduct an array of advocacy, education, and training initiatives that promote human rights, democracy, free market economics, th ...moree rule of law, independent media, and US engagement in international affairs. Its publications, Freedom in the World, Freedom of the Press, Nations in Transit, and Countries at the Crossroads are regularly used as references by international journalists, press freedom advocates, policy-makers, non-governmental organizations, the US government, and the global business community
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• Freedom in the World - Kyrgyzstan (2005)
  By Freedom House. The study represents an overview of the democratization processes within Kyrgyzstan. It measures the levels of democracy, accountability of domestic authorities to their electorate, levels of freedom of speech and expressions, as well as general political freedoms.
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• Islam in mass-media space of Russia and Tatarstan: policy and social analysis
  By Irina Kouznetsova-Morenko. The purpose of the article is to study of Russian and Tatarstan media policy towards Islam in a context of interreligious tolerance and research of potential of transformations in media policy. The project based on studying of the level of attention of Russian and Regional press for the life of Muslims in republics of traditional distribution of Hanafit maskhab (Tatarstan, Bashkortostan), analysis of opinions and stereotypes concerned Islam and Muslims translated by mass-media, revitalization peculiarity of treatment of the questions concerned processes in Muslim world of Russia, Tatarstan and foreign countries in Russian and Tatarstan mass-media
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• Kyrgyzstan at the Crossroads
  By Michael A. Weinstein. The paper examines political situation in Kyrgyzstan before the change of the political climate in 2005. It By considers geopolitical conditions, domestic political axes, international relations and possible scenarios of future developments.
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• Kyrgyzstan, Countries at the Crossroads 2004
  By Eric McGlinchey, Freedom House Publications. The paper examines political situation in Kyrgyzstan before the change of the political climate in 2005. Its main focus is on overview of political rights and civil liberties
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• Media, Language Policy and Cultural Change in Tatarstan: Historic vs. Pragmatic Claims to Nationhood
  By Howard Davis, Philip Hammond and Lilia Nizamova. The politics of national identity in the Republic of Tatarstan are complex and often contradictory. Although sometimes posed in terms of an historical legacy, claims to nationhood are also strongly shaped by more pragmatic contemporary concerns. In addition to more conventional forms of political mobilisation, national identity is also contested in cultural arenas. Examining policies on language reform and media development, for example, sheds light on the processes through which a sense of national identity is currently being renegotiated in Tatarstan
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• Partners for Democratic Change
  Partners for Democratic Change is an international organization committed to building sustainable local capacity to advance civil society and a culture of change and conflict management worldwide. Partners builds the capacity of local institutions to promote democratic, participatory change and develops locally staffed and managed Centers for Change & Conflict Management, currently located in Albania, Argentina, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Georgia, Hungary, Jordan, Kosovo, Lithuania, Mexico, Peru, Poland, Romania and Slovakia. The Partners train leaders and practitioners from all sectors in effective change and conflict management skills and processes
  citizen civil conciliation conflict democracy dispute global mediation participation peace-building resolution society
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• Recommendations on the reform of the legal profession in Kyrgyzstan
  By Open Society Justice Initiative. The main goal of current recommendations is to present a set of guidelines based on norms of international and customary law to address topical issues of legal profession reform process in Kyrgyzstan, which is ultimately aimed at strengthening the role of lawyers in defending individual freedoms. The recommendations address a large spectrum of lawyers, although the main thrust of this document is directed at "advocates" or those with rights of access to the accused under Kyrgyzstan's criminal code and before the courts. http://pdc.ceu.hu/archive/00002351/
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• The Patience of a Nation is Measured in Centuries'. National Revival in Tatarstan and Historiography
  By Alexei Zverev, in "Secession, History and the Social Sciences", Edited by Bruno Coppieters and Michel Huysseune. The paper provides a historical overview of the developing of the Tatar nation from the early period of their existence, unification with Russia, developments within the Soviet Union, and formation of national movements and national mobilizations in Tatarstan
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• Nationalism and the Drive for Sovereignty in Tatarstan, 1988-92: Origins and Development
  By Sergei Kondrashov. Macmillan, Basingstoke and London, and St Martin's Press, New York, 2000. xiii + 238 pp
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• Ethnic Conflict, Secession, and Political Violence in Tatarstan and Chechnya: The Role of the Russian State
  By Elizabeth Frombgen. The research represents a comparative analysis of the two cases of autonomies in Russia, - Chechnya and Tarastan and attempts to understand why the Russian state invaded the Republic of Chechnya in 1994, but signed a bilateral treaty with the Republic of Tatarstan in 1994, despite significant similarities between the cases. Both Tatarstan and Chechnya are Islamic nations/nationalities brought under Russian rule by force. Both were autonomous republics in the Russian Republic at the end of the Soviet Union and are currently republics in the Russian Federation. Both refused to sign the Russian Constitution of 1993, and both declared independence or sovereignty
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