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Original Source Age Action, Barnardos, Focus Ireland, and St. Vincent de Paul are Atlantic grantees. by ELAINE EDWARDS TRADE UNIONS and non- governmental organisations (NGOs) have formed a joint campaign group to oppose proposed cuts in social welfare payments or the minimum wage. The move…

Original Source Queen's University Belfast is an Atlantic grantee. A £6.7m research centre focusing on climate change has been opened at Queen's University in Belfast. In what the university has called a 'first for Ireland' the CHRONO Centre for Climate, the Environment and Chronology was…

Bronx, NY - PHI, a nonprofit working to strengthen eldercare and disability services in the United States, announces that it has opened a national policy/advocacy office in Washington, DC. The opening of the DC-based office caps a year in which the Bronx-based PHI has significantly…

Original Source The University of KwaZulu-Natal is an Atlantic grantee. by MICHELLE FAUL South Africa is launching clinical trials of the first HIV/Aids vaccines created by a developing country, a feat by scientists who forged ahead even when some of their political leaders shocked the…

by ANN FARMER Jose was 14 when he left his home in Oaxaca, Mexico, and paid a smuggler $1,200 to sneak him across the border. He made it to Phoenix and started on a long and familiar odyssey as he scratched out a living, first…

by Melanie Gosling Radical changes to the treatment of emergency patients in the Western Cape will damage the province's world-class trauma centres and compromise patient care, doctors say. The provincial Health Department's plan is designed to merge the overloaded casualty sections at tertiary hospitals with…

Despite extraordinary progress which has lifted 600 million people out of poverty in Asia since 1990, the basic right to health is under threat and the future looks more uncertain, says University of New South Wales professor of Health and Human Rights, Daniel Tarantola. "The…

Original Source KIPP and Harlem Children's Zone are Atlantic grantees. The $100 billion education stimulus package gives Education Secretary Arne Duncan unprecedented leverage to energize the languishing school reform effort. Mr. Duncan has said from the start that he wants the states to transform about…

by GENEVIEVE CARBERY THERE WAS dissatisfaction with the Civil Partnership Bill among a larger than expected crowd which marched in the Dublin Pride Parade at the weekend. The city centre was filled with colour, costumes, balloons, music, whistles and chants on Saturday as thousands of…

Original Source by ALEX VAN HEEVER Robust criticism of specific national health insurance (NHI) proposals should not be seen as negating the need for fundamental strategic reform, which includes both social and universal insurance options as components. Such reforms are urgently needed, but will require…