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Curing Violence Starts at the Community Level
Photo: Flickr via MediaPlanet By Emily Morrow David* was a model eighth-grader. He had exemplary grades, a near perfect attendance record and scored well on all his state exams. Then, he made his first suicide threat. He was hospitalized for a day or so, but…
Author: Mediaplanet
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Xenophobic violence last May organised by community leaders, says researcher
JOHANNESBURG: The xenophobic violence last May was organised by “community leaders”, a university researcher said yesterday. “The community leaders – the street committees, the comrades, the CPF (Community Policing Forum) as they are called – are involved. “They were the ones who were organising the…
Author: Cape Times (South Africa)
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SA on alert for xenophobic violence
Original Source by DONNA BRYSON PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA — Some of the shack dwellers of Jeffsville recently had an idea: Why not stage a march to demand government housing some had been awaiting for 18 years? Community leader Ernest Tshavhuyo, though, feared an angry march…
Author: Mail & Guardian Online
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Xenophobic Violence in South Africa: Rays of Hope in Terrible Times
Johannesburg, South Africa When I arrived here on Monday after eighteen hours in transit, I was greeted by the horrific image on the front page of that morning’s Star, of a refugee hunted down by a mob and burned alive, in a grim imitation of…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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Children at Centre of Pilot Domestic Violence Service
By Ronan McGreevy. The first dedicated service for child victims of domestic violence in Ireland has been launched in Co Mayo. The Mayo Children’s Initiative (MCI) in Castlebar is funded exclusively by Atlantic Philanthropies, the foundation set up by Irish-American billionaire Chuck Feeney. Atlantic Philanthropies…
Author: The Irish Times
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Violence ruins chance of free Zimbabwe poll
Original Source Increasing levels of political violence have extinguished hopes for a free and fair presidential run-off election in Zimbabwe at the end of the month, Human Rights Watch warned today. “Since the runoff was announced, the violence in Zimbabwe has gotten even worse,” said…
Author: Business Day (South Africa)
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Lancet: Leadership needed to fight SA violence
Original Source Save the Children, University of Cape Town, University of the Witwatersrand, University of KwaZulu-Natal, University of Pretoria, and University of the Western Cape are Atlantic grantees. Funding for this publication was provided by Saving Newborn Lives/Save the Children USA through a grant from…
Author: Mail & Guardian Online
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Provisional IRA defectors behind new Ulster violence
Dissident republicans ‘major threat to peace’: Sinn Fein condemns fresh shootings and bombings by Henry McDonald A fresh upsurge of dissident republican violence in Northern Ireland was orchestrated by a new nucleus of ex-IRA members who have defected from the Provisionals. Veterans of the Provisional…
Author: The Guardian (London)
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Migrant bill should deal with violence, say lobbyists
PAMELA DUNCAN AMENDMENTS DESIGNED to protect migrant women experiencing domestic violence should be included in the Immigration and Protection Bill, an Oireachtas committee heard yesterday. Representatives of Women’s Aid, migrant network AkiDwA and the Immigrant Council of Ireland said migrant women were in a vulnerable…
Author: The Irish Times
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Filmmakers Against Racism documents xenophobic violence in South Africa
Filmmakers Against Racism web site In May 2008, a group of South African filmmakers and producers joined forces to create documentaries and Public Service Announcements to address the recent xenophobic violence in their country. This organisation is called Filmmakers Against Racism (FAR). From the FAR…
Author: Filmmakers Against Racism