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by STEVEN GREENHOUSE The Rockefeller Foundation's annual report is chock-full of photographs of exotic lands and details of its grants to fight disease in Cambodia and help African farmers improve their soil. It is part of the foundation's focus on what it calls smart globalization.…

Original Source By Barry McCaffrey An American billionaire yesterday announced that he is to match British government funding for community-based restorative justice (CBRJ) projects. Over the next three years American billionaire Chuck Feeney and the NIO will jointly provide £600,000 funding for community-based restorative justice…

Original Source Over the next three years the money will be invested in accredited community based projects (CBRJ). Criminal Justice Minister Paul Goggins announced the new funding package, which is a joint venture between the NIO and the Atlantic Philanthrophies. "CBRJ schemes have shown that…

Original Source Restorative justice schemes in Northern Ireland are to receive £600,000 over three years, the authorities said today. The funding package is a joint venture between the Northern Ireland Office (NIO) and independent international charitable foundation the Atlantic Philanthropies. The programmes deal with people…

With most Baby Boomers short on savings, longer worklife urged Original Source by Gail Marks Jarvis It seemed like a good idea. Baby Boomers who never got around to saving as much as they hoped promised to keep working past retirement age. The joke in…

by Caroline O'Poherty WORKERS spurned by ageist employers are fighting back with anti-discrimination law. Age discrimination is now the most common reason employees seek help from the Equality Authority to force bosses to comply with the Employment Equality Act. Niall Crowley, chief executive of the…

Original Source By Francis Hweshe The Western Cape government has acknowledged the fears expressed by some refugees over their reintegration, but says it willcontinue to work towards returning them to the communities from which they were displaced. During the xenophobic attacks in May, about 20,000…

Original Source By Lisa Schencker American Indian and other minority students sometimes drop out of school partly because they don't feel connected enough to their cultures from an early age, an expert on identifying dropout behaviors told educators Wednesday. "If you don't have a strong…

Original Source By Chelsea Laun Foreign nationals displaced by xenophobic violence two months ago are still enduring inhumane living conditions and basic human rights violations in Western Cape refugee camps, say two reports by the South African Human Rights Commission and the Joint Refugee Leadership…

Original Source By JOSEPH GIDJUNIS Woodrow Wilson High School's incoming class of seniors is expected to have at least 40 extra names to call come graduation next June. While the Class of 2008 had 210 graduates, the Class of 2009, could have as many as…