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East Meets West: 15 years and still building
JOHN W. CONROY VIETNAM — DANANG,For the last 15 years, retired Beekmantown dairy farmer Mark Conroy has been directing humanitarian development work in Vietnam for the East Meets West Foundation. He only last year stepped down as country director and is now the foundation’s senior…
Author: Press Republican
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Human rights body must not face more cuts, says Minister
JAMIE SMYTH Social Affairs Correspondent The Irish Human Rights Commission should not face further cuts in funding in the forthcoming budget, Minister of State for Equality Mary White has said. Ms White said she would do her utmost to protect the commission, which faced cuts…
Author: The Irish Times
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SA Constitution : A non-racial effort
FRANNY RABKIN SA’s political tumult loomed large at Liliesleaf Farm in Johannesburg on Thursday as a group of business, legal and intellectual leaders came together to form a new civil society body to promote the constitution and guard against what the Congress of South African…
Author: BusinessDay
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Letters - Born in the U.S.A.: Should That Make You a Citizen?
This edition of Letters to the Editor is in response to Peter H. Schuck’s op-ed, “Birthright of a Nation” on August 14, 2010. Contributors include Bruce A. Morrison, a former member of Congress who was chairman of the House Subcommittee on Immigration and Edith Asibey,…
Author: The New York Times
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Young activists gather in Galway in preparation for a new Ireland
By TREVOR QUINN As the latest statistics showed Ireland’s unemployment rate continues to rise, 20 young people from across Ireland gathered in Galway last weekend determined to highlight their desire for much needed change. The SpunOut.ie Academy of Activism, supported by the Huston Film School…
Author: Galway Advertiser
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In the Rearview Mirror, Oklahoma and Death Row
You can never come back, ever. If you plead guilty to that long-ago murder in Oklahoma City, you will be released from prison, where you have spent most of the last 27 years on death row. But once free, you will be banished from Oklahoma.…
Author: The New York Times
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Elev8 Students to Congressman: Immigration Reform Now
By Maureen Kelleher. For many Chicago middle school students, immigration reform isn’t an academic abstraction. Some of them are undocumented, or have friends and classmates who are, and they’re apprehensive about what life beyond the 8th grade holds for them. This was abundantly clear earlier…
Author: LISC/Chicago
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Awaiting a Full Embrace of Same-Sex Weddings
CAPE TOWN — It was another picture-perfect wedding at the foot of Table Mountain, recalled the Rev. Daniel Brits. Inside the chapel, a female vocalist sang “Wind Beneath My Wings” before he led the nervous couple through their vows surrounded by family and friends a…
Author: The New York Times
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Xenophobia downplayed, but government quietly taking it seriously
By Wilson Johwa. THE government may have chosen to deny the existence of xenophobic violence but was better prepared for it than in 2008, says Gerald Kraak, South African head of the US foundation Atlantic Philanthropies. After the 2008 attacks it commissioned a study whose…
Author: Business Day
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Activism 'academy' to focus on young people's role in politics
By Lorna Siggins. YOUNG IRISH people are turning away from political parties for more complex reasons than a general “despair and disillusionment”, according to the founder of a Galway-based national youth website. Advocacy and activism are seen as far more appealing than the “long, slow,…
Author: The Irish Times