Trilogy of tragedy

Magnus Nome 1 September 2012

Three texts taken together invoke Norway’s darkest day in peacetime.

Legal insanity - look to Norway?

Pål Grøndahl 23 August 2012

The Norwegian penal law is one of the very few in the world that adheres to what is referred to as the medical principle. The medical principle implies that a person with a diagnosis that involves an active ongoing psychosis should be regarded as insane.

Justice is just a word

Kjetil Østli 20 August 2012

This Friday, Norwegian terrorist Anders Behring Breivik hears his verdict. It will do little to console the wreckage of the living. A writer who covered the events and the court case reflects on the impossibility of justice.

The Exile Nation Project - Interview with Mark Kleiman, Ph.D

Charles Shaw 9 November 2011
The outspoken and controversial author, UCLA Professor and former Justice Department official gives his take on the origins of the American incarceration crisis.

oD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of March 21st 2011

Mark Weiss and Charles Shaw 22 March 2011
We lead this week with news of the 54th Session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs which opened yesterday in Vienna. UNODC Executive Director Yury Fedotov called for a vigorous, comprehensive and integrated approach to reducing drug demand, supply and trafficking ~ MW & CS

oD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of March 14th 2011

Mark Weiss and Charles Shaw 16 March 2011
We lead this week with exciting news of a special preview of "The Exile Nation Project: An Oral History of the War on Drugs & the American Criminal Justice System.” Written, produced and directed by our very own Charles Shaw, the film puts a human face on the millions of American's subjugated by the US Government's 40 year, one trillion dollar social catastrophe ~ MW & CS

oD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of November 22nd 2010

Mark Weiss and Charles Shaw 23 November 2010
This weeks front line report covers a broad ground, from news of the Subtance Misuse Consortium in the UK working to drive treatment standards up; the relationship between hepitatitis C, substance misuse and health equality; a 20 fold increase in the number of users criminalized in Ukraine; and the start of our regular showcasing of films from the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union. We lead though with a news of a considered documentary film, 'Marijauna - A Chronic History?'

oD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of September 27th, 2010

Mark Weiss and Charles Shaw 28 September 2010
We lead this week with the release of the much anticipated trailer from Charles Shaw and openDemocracy's The Exile Nation Project, a testimonial documentary about the far-ranging consequences of the American criminal justice system.

14 Shocking Facts That Prove the US Criminal Justice System Is Racist

Bill Quigley 27 July 2010
The biggest crime in the U.S. criminal justice system is that it is a race-based institution where African-Americans are directly targeted and punished in a much more aggressive way than white people.

The Crime of Being Poor: Class and Criminal Justice in America

24 May 2010
A U.S. prisoner named Paul Wright has penned an extraordinary essay on the role of class in the American criminal justice system.

The bizarre universe of drug prohibition: an introduction to the oD Drug Policy Forum

Charles Shaw 14 May 2010
International drug policy is at a tipping point. Emerging from a forty year repressive dark age following the excesses of the 1960s, has the world learned enough to craft a saner, more compassionate approach to drug use?

This week's guest editors

openGlobalRights editors

Our guest editors James Ron, Leslie Vinjamuri, Sophie Arie and Archana Pandya introduce this week's theme of:

Emerging powers and human rights.

A Turkish Spring?

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Woolwich - terror or conflict?

Secret Courts: 8 nightmare scenarios now possible in Britain
Jo Shaw

Iran myths

Iranian presidential candidate and chief nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalill

Myths, falsehoods and misrepresentations about Iran
Peter Oborne and David Morrison

Palestinian borders

Palestine, peoples and borders in the new Middle East map
Ahmad Samih Khalidi

Nobel Women's Initiative

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Europe from the bottom up

European Union stars in Paris. Flickr/notarim. Some rights reserved.

A new Europe can only come from the bottom up
Etienne Balibar

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The media in Europe

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Mali: the plot thickens

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Remote control war

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oDRussia at journalismfestival .com

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