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Centre for Public Inquiry
$443,982
Resource type: Grantee
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10th Anniversary - The Omagh Bombing - 'Public inquiry would help us all to move on'
Source: Irish News
"I won't be long." Those were the last words Michael Gallagher heard his son Aiden say as he left to buy jeans in Omagh on August 15, 1998. The 58-year-old has been very much the public voice and face of the bomb victims over the…
Resource type: News
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Centre for Justice Says Changes to Human Rights Act Do Not Go Far Enough
Source: The Royal Gazette
By Ayo JohnsonLegislators are today being urged to reject proposed changes to the Human Rights Act in favour of amendments which bring Bermuda’s human rights regime in line with international standards.The amendments to be debated today do not go far enough to create a truly…
Resource type: News
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Testimony 'not about getting revenge for Frank Connolly'
Source: Independent
By Fergus Black and Lorna Reid BROADCASTER Eamon Dunphy was persuaded by controversial journalist Frank Connolly that his information on alleged payments to the Taoiseach was significant, he admitted yesterday. Mr Dunphy denied that he had gone to the tribunal for "revenge" over how Dail…
Resource type: News
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Northern Ireland Has Much More to Accomplish in Human Rights
The Good Friday Agreement represented a critical step forward for human rights in Northern Ireland, but it is essential to focus on what hasn’t yet been accomplished, said Martin O'Brien, Programme Director, Reconciliation & Human Rights Programme at The Atlantic Philanthropies, in this speech at…
Resource type: Speech
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FARC fallout: Billionaire saddened over cutting anti-corruption funding
Source: Irish Examiner
THE billionaire backer of an Irish anti-corruption office has admitted he was sad to pull its funding when it got caught up in a controversy surrounding alleged IRA training for Colombian guerrillas. In a rare interview to be broadcast today, Irish-American philanthropist Chuck Feeney, 77,…
Resource type: News
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Making and Living History
Source: Christopher G. Oechsli, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies
Completion of our grantmaking at the end of 2016 brings us one step closer to the end of the path our founder, Chuck Feeney, and Atlantic started down 35 years ago.
Resource type: News
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TASC Report: "Courage vital if we are to build flourishing and decent society"
Source: The Irish Times
Fergus O'FerrallOPINION: Those who have power to change have not the will and those with the desire remain powerless‘Irish society is being challenged to little less than to remould itself.”This was stated by President Michael D Higgins when launching a book of essays entitled Towards a…
Resource type: News
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Celebrating Financial Reform in the U.S. – An Advance for Social Justice
Source: Vivien Labaton
Vivien Labaton, Director of Strategic Programme Initiatives at The Atlantic Philanthropies, reflects on the recent passage of financial reform in the United States and the activities of Atlantic grantees to help bring it about. The recent passage of the financial reform law—the Dodd-Frank Wall…
Resource type: News
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Seething beneath the surface
Source: Mail & Guardian Online
University of the Witwatersrand is an Atlantic grantee. By Monako Dibetle and Mandy Rossouw. It has been 18 months since the violent xenophobic attacks broke out across the country. Monako Dibetle and Mandy Rossouw talked to foreigners from across Southern Africa, locals and experts and…
Resource type: News
