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In his latest instalment in a series chronicling Atlantic’s limited life, Tony Proscio at the Duke University Center for Strategic Philanthropy & Civil Society conjures the image of a harvest to describe our work in Atlantic’s final years. The metaphor is apt. We want to…

International Human Rights Day on 10 December marks the 63rd year of global recognition of our basic human equality and the continuous struggle to gain basic human rights for all individuals. Reconciliation & Human Rights made up the largest portion of Atlantic's 2010 grantmaking programmes — funding…

The 1998 Belfast Agreement stressed the centrality of protecting human rights to building a better future for Northern Ireland. The Agreement made explicit commitments to producing a Bill of Rights (BOR) for Northern Ireland. This process of achieving a Bill has been beset with political…

By Jay Naidoo.  I WOULD like to recommend that we think of philanthropy not simply as a means of "giving back", but as a means of 'giving forward'. Taken this way, philanthropy can be seen as a means to promote the stability of African society…

FARANAAZ PARKER Civil society organisations on Wednesday warned that repressive laws, such as the proposed Protection of Information Bill (POI) would come back to haunt the state further down the line. "A Bill, once it's passed into law, does not stay in the statute books…

Original Source by Gara LaMarche As the Obama Administration has in recent days taken a couple of steps in the civil liberties/national security area -- opposing release of torture photos and declaring an intent to retain some form of military commissions for terror suspects (while…

Gara LaMarche delivers the Keynote Address at the Better Business Bureau of Metropolitan New York Symposium: Baruch College School of Public Affairs. It’s a little odd that I should be standing here this morning to share some thoughts about the role of evaluation in foundations…

The Atlantic Philanthropies mourns the loss of Michael Ratner. For over a decade, we have funded work led by Michael that has enabled the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) to secure justice for victims of human rights and civil liberties abuses. His fearless leadership and tireless commitment…

Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Attorney General Eric Holder tour the J. O. Wilson Elementary School in Washington. They were at the school to speak about the need to address "unnecessary and unfair school discipline practices." APBy Susan FerrissAttorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of…

By PAMELA DUNCANWHEN BARRY Dignam and Hugh Walsh first met almost 20 years ago, homosexuality was still illegal; neither man envisaged then a time where their relationship would be legally recognised by the Irish State.Yet today, 17 years after they started going out, they will…