Results List
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UN review puts Irish human rights record under scrutiny
Source: The Irish Times
MARK KELLY Thu, Oct 06, 2011 OPINION: MINISTER FOR Justice Alan Shatter and senior officials are in Geneva today, facing a series of tough questions posed by our European neighbours and by other UN member states on Ireland’s human rights record. The hearing forms part of…
Resource type: News
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The Atlantic Philanthropies Appoint Christopher Oechsli President and Chief Executive Officer
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
NEW YORK, NY, 28 September 2011 – The Board of Directors of The Atlantic Philanthropies has announced the appointment of Christopher Oechsli as President and Chief Executive Officer, and his election to the Board, effective immediately. Oechsli has served as Interim President and Chief Executive…
Resource type: News
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South Africa: Farmworkers’ Dismal, Dangerous Lives
Source: Human Rights Watch
Originally published on August 23, 2011 Workers Protected by Law, but Not in the FieldsRipe with Abuse Human Rights Conditions in South Africa’s Fruit and Wine Industries> Read the report> View photographs, videos, resources and more. (Cape Town) – Workers in Western Cape province who help produce…
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Public Enemy No. 1: Students?
Source: Chicago Sun-Times
By Leanne Italie High-tech surveillance. Metal detectors. Zero tolerance for, well, just about any bad behavior, real or overblown. Welcome to Lockdown High, the title of a sweeping new book by journalist Annette Fuentes, describing how the schoolhouse has become a jailhouse and fear prevails.…
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Ireland’s UPR
Ireland's UPR was written and produced by award winning film maker Aoibheann O'Sullivan. The film documents the compilation and submission of Your Rights. Right Now-Ireland's UPR Stakeholder Report. On 21 March 2011 the Your Rights. Right Now campaign submitted its joint civil society stakeholder report to the 12th Session of the…
Resource type: Video
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Out of the Box: Queer Youth in South Africa Today
Source: African Activist
Atlantic Philanthropies just completed a study of queer youth in South Africa today. Seventeen years after the Constitution outlawed discrimination based on sexual orientation, the study explores if democracy has brought greater tolerance and celebration of diversity for today's young LGBTIs.Marian Nell and Janet Shapiro authored the…
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Department of Homeland Security-funded counterterror trainings smear Muslims
Source: PRA in the News
PRA's groundbreaking exposé of how tax dollars fund anti-Muslim trainings for police and counterterrorism personnel won the attention of news outlets and policy makers at its release this spring. We've been keeping the pressure on the Department of Homeland Security to stop funding flawed and bigoted…
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Historic Decision at the United Nations
Source: Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Council Passes First-Ever Resolution on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (Geneva) - In a groundbreaking achievement for upholding the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the United Nations Human Rights Council has passed a resolution on human rights violations based…
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More schools rethinking zero-tolerance discipline stand
Source: The Washington Post
This article from The Washington Post highlights several Atlantic Children & Youth programme grantees that are working at the local, state and national level to reform zero-tolerance disciplinary policies, which harm children by punishing any rule infraction, regardless of severity or circumstances, and often use…
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It is up to us to uphold human rights
Source: Irish Examiner
Uprisings in North Africa show change only happens if we demand it, writes Colm O'Gorman. IN just five months ordinary men and women have overall thrown governments in Egypt and Tunisia. Right now others are fighting, and dying, to oust Libyan dictator Colonel Gaddafi. In…
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