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State seeks to overturn court's child rape ruling
Source: The Star (South Africa)
Shielding victims from abusers under spotlight by Karyn Maughan Justice bosses don't want to be ordered to protect South Africa's child rape victims from the horror of facing their alleged abusers in court. The Justice Department was to ask the Constitutional Court today to overturn…
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State-Level Races Shape Education Landscape
Source: EducationWeek
by Michele McNeil In pivotal state races that will affect education, voters in Tuesday's elections legalized slot machines in Maryland to help fund schools, flipped the Missouri governor's office from Republican to Democrat, and defeated ballot measures in Oregon that would have limited English-language learners'…
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Primary education groups unite to criticise 'shameful' cutbacks
Source: The Irish Times
THE CAMPAIGN against the education cuts gained further momentum yesterday as 10 groups involved in primary education united to criticise the "shameful and immoral" cutbacks. The National Alliance for Primary Education - an umbrella group representing school managers, principals, parents and teachers - described…
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The business of the Truth Commission is still not done
Source: Cape Argus (South Africa)
by Fanie du Toit and Natalie Jaynes Precisely 10 years ago to the day, Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu handed over the first five volumes of the final report of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission to President Nelson Mandela. This week the Institute for…
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Services cannot cope with number of youths seeking help
Source: The Irish Times
by CARL OBRIEN HUNDREDS OF children and adolescents in crisis who need counselling and support are being turned away from services because they cannot cope with demand. Crosscare, the social care agency of the Dublin Diocese, said it was unable to deal with about…
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Protecting research time for arthritis
Source: Irish Times
Arthritis Ireland is funding three new academic chairs in rheumatology in Irish universities, costing €7 million, in a drive to boost research, education and clinical services for patients. WHEN IT comes to providing services for people with arthritis, Ireland finds itself sorely lacking, according…
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The Global Financial Crisis and Philanthropy: Altering Course in a Perfect Storm
Source: Gara LaMarche
The roots of the global financial crisis, and the paths out of it, are matters for debate. But what no one disputes is that the landscape in which foundations like Atlantic are working has been dramatically altered, and likely will be for some time to…
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The Transformer
Source: The New York Times
by LINDA PERLSTEIN WHATEVER IT TAKES Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America By Paul Tough Illustrated. 296 pp. Houghton Mifflin. $26 When assessing the state of America's children, people speak of the achievement gap between the middle class and the poor. But really…
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Over-70s will lose right to medical cards
Source: The Irish Independent
by Eilish O'Regan UP to 10,000 over 70s will lose out on automatic entitlement to a medical card next year as the Government puts a halt to the scheme in today's Budget. The automatic entitlement to a medical card -- regardless of means -- is…
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Judge: Mich. can't reject voters with bad address
Source: The Associated Press
A judge has ordered Michigan election officials to stop automatically canceling a voter's registration if the card is returned as undeliverable. Federal Judge Stephen Murphy in Detroit ruled Monday in a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and a group representing college students.…
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