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At the core of the transitional justice approach is the belief that amnesia is never a solution, and that moving forward can only genuinely occur through coming to terms with the past.- Bill Rolston, Director of the Transitional Justice Institute in the University of Ulster In…

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…

New York City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn invites you to spend an evening with Irish LGBT Organisation BeLonG To who are doing fantastic work to make Ireland a safer place for gay young people.The evening will include a screening of the groundbreaking documentary Growing…

BILL CORCORAN in Cape TownThe South African government has introduced a Bill that will give pension and healthcare rights to the 56,000 registered veterans of the struggle against apartheid, but critics say the scheme does not go far enoughIT IS 25 YEARS since Trevor Ngengemane…

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…

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…

By Patsy McGarry The public are being asked to identify the social issues and/or interventions that have the most potential for a scheme of what are called social impact bonds. A social impact bond (SIB) is a public-private contract in which the relevant public-sector entity agrees…

By: National Council on Aging CDCUs to Work with Regional Economic Security Centers to Assist Vulnerable Older Adults According to research from the National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions (Federation) and the National Council on Aging (NCOA), older adults in the United States are…

By Zinhle Mapumulo About 1 million more people are expected to be added on to the government’s HIV-treatment programme, bringing the number of those receiving such medication to at least 2.5 million. Aids lobby groups that had been campaigning for more people to be put…

By Elizabeth Roberts Three Bermudian women made history by being the first from the Island to attend a prestigious gender studies programme in Barbados. Elaine Williams, Deborah Bradford and Robyn Skinner spent all of July on the intensive course at the Caribbean Institute for Gender…