Results List
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Report Card 2012: Is the Government Keeping Its Promises to Children?
Source: Children's Rights Alliance
Report Card 2012 was published on 23 January 2012. This year the Alliance has given the Irish Government its best result in four years - an overall ‘C+’ grade for its progress to date on its key promises to children. The grade is in recognition…
Resource type: News
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84% of NI People Have Made No Provision For Future Care
Source: University of Ulster
More than four out of five people in Northern Ireland have made no provision for their care in the future, while a full one-third of elderly people say their greatest fear is of having to move into a care home, because of worries about the…
Resource type: News
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A Day in a Life With Disability
Source: Genio Trust
Don Bailey, who navigates life in a wheelchair, spent most of his early life living in institutional care. When he left St. Joseph’s Hospital in Coole, Ireland at age twenty and moved to Dublin to work, he found the challenges of living on his own…
Resource type: News
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Purpose Prize Winners Honored by Obama, Oprah
Source: Civic Ventures
This dispatch is from Civic Ventures’ Encore Careers campaign, an Atlantic grantee that aims to engage millions of people in encore careers – combining personal meaning, continued income and social impact – to produce a windfall of talent to solve society’s greatest problems.This is an…
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In Plain Sight: Responding to the Ferns, Ryan, Murphy and Cloyne Reports
Source: Amnesty International Ireland
The abuse of tens of thousands of children is called “perhaps the greatest human rights failure in the history of the State” in this report by Amnesty International Ireland (AI). The absence of accountability in key institutions, the need for recognition of children’s human rights…
Resource type: Research Report
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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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Study exposes some some myths about school discipline
Source: The Washington Post
By Donna St. GeorgeHere’s one myth of school debunked: Harsh discipline is not always a reflection of the students in a particular school. It can be driven by those in charge.In a study of nearly a million Texas children described as an unprecedented look at…
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The Irish America Hall of Fame officially opens in Ireland
Source: Irish Central
By Patrick O'BrienThe Irish America Hall of Fame is officially inaugurated in Wexford today with Irish Tourism Minister Leo Varadekar doing the honors along with inductee Michael Flatley.The Irish America Magazine Hall of Fame is located near the shore where John F.Kennedy’s family left Ireland…
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Frankly, they don't give a damn
Source: The Sydney Morning Herald
By Miriam SteffensWhen it comes to philanthropy, many seriously wealthy Australians have deep pockets and short arms. IN THE midst of an unprecedented mining boom that's creating more millionaires than ever, rising standards of living and wealth, it is our dark little secret. Australian of…
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Why Movements Matter
Source: The American Prospect
Paradigm-shifting elections don't shift paradigms if there aren't corresponding social movements for change.By VIVIEN LABATON AND GARA LAMARCHE One thing we now know with certainty, more than two years into Barack Obama's presidency, is that change is an uphill battle. We're already defending hard-won gains on health care…
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