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Obama Seeks to Join Global Rights of Child Pact
The Obama administration is reviving efforts to have the United States sign onto a global children’s rights treaty ratified by every U.N. member except the U.S. and Somalia, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, said Monday. Administration officials are actively discussing “when…
Author: The Associated Press
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Doctors offered R1bn package
by Mogomotsi Magome and SAPA The Department of Health has offered to increase some doctors’ salaries by up to 60 percent from next month, in a bid to avert a nationwide strike that could cripple the public health system. The increases proposed by the department…
Author: Pretoria News (South Africa)
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KZN doctors vow to intensify strike
Striking doctors in KwaZulu-Natal on Thursday embarked on a campaign to cajole their counterparts in other parts of the country to join them. The strike over pay and working conditions started in KwaZulu-Natal four days ago and had crippled public health institutions in urban areas…
Author: SAPA
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Community Schools: Bringing Together Community Partners to Increase Opportunities for Youth
Volume VII, No. 6 of the U.S. Department of Education’s Education Innovator newsletter features three Atlantic grantees from our Children & Youth Programme: Communities in Schools, Coalition for Community Schools, and Harlem Children’s Zone. To read the issue, download the PDF below.
Author: The Education Innovator (DOE)
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HCAN Rally: Health Care Can't Wait
Link to Video On 25th June, ten thousand activists rallied on Capitol Hill for quality affordable health care coverage for everyone in the United States. Mobilised by Health Care for America Now! or HCAN, activists visited with dozens of members of of the U.S. Congress…
Author: The Atlantic Philanthropies
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National Community Service Initiative Launched, Leveraged by Organizations Across the Country
Original Source America’s Promise Alliance, the United Way, and the Huffington Post are Atlantic grantees. The Corporation for National and Community Service has announced that it will lead a national, twelve-week initiative developed by the Obama administration to stimulate economic growth and encourage community service…
Author: Philanthropy News Digest
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Lotto billions not being disbursed
Full story by Kobus Marais Only 28% of lottery funds paid out while board members earn R7.5 million A reply to a Democratic Alliance (DA) parliamentary question has revealed that despite R8.5 billion being available to the South African Lottery Board for distribution to beneficiaries…
Author: Politics Web (South Africa)
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A school, and a neighborhood, losing a leader
Grant Middle School, through the Elev8 initiative, is an Atlantic grantee. by Lloyd Jojola After 13 years as Grant Middle School principal, Ed Briggs, the man who says he aspired to be a runner, not a walker, in life and in education, is slowing the pace. Briggs…
Author: Albuquerque Journal
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Drug shortages heap more woes on ailing healthcare system
Public health is in disarray as many hospitals and clinics countrywide experience medical supply shortages. The stock shortfall is so grave that some patients have had to leave the health facilities empty-handed, writes S’THEMBISO HLONGWANE. FOR four hours, Prudence Mnyandu shifted from one wooden bench to…
Author: City Press (South Africa)
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Xenophobia 'excluded from dialogue on racism'
Original Source University of the Witwatersrand is an Atlantic grantee. JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA — Racism against black foreigners from African countries is often excluded from discourse about racism in South Africa, the First Apartheid Archive Conference heard on Thursday. “… in the studies of racism…
Author: Mail & Guardian Online