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PAMELA DUNCANAMENDMENTS DESIGNED to protect migrant women experiencing domestic violence should be included in the Immigration and Protection Bill, an Oireachtas committee heard yesterday.Representatives of Women’s Aid, migrant network AkiDwA and the Immigrant Council of Ireland said migrant women were in a vulnerable position, as…

Original Source by RUADHÁN Mac CORMAIC, Migration Correspondent THE IRISH Refugee Council has welcomed as an “enlightened step” the Government’s commitment to end the use of hostels to accommodate separated children seeking asylum. The change was recommended by the Ryan report into institutional child abuse.…

The first thing greeting visitors to kiva.org's home page is a photograph and description of a featured business. It could be a Ugandan cobbler, a Peruvian farmer or a shopkeeper in Tajikistan. Users can make small loans to these entrepreneurs and, during the course of…

 RTE.ie news interviewed the Immigrant Council of Ireland's Catherine Cosgrave, Senior Solicitor and Nusha Yonkova, Anti-Trafficking Project Coordinator and others on the launch of MIPEX in Ireland.  The Migrant Integration Policy Index (MIPEX) research measures the commitment of governments to integration and monitors its translation…

Original Source By Nick Madigan, Sun Reporter Undercover Maryland State Police officers repeatedly spied on peace activists and anti-death penalty groups in recent years and entered the names of some in a law-enforcement database of people thought to be terrorists or drug traffickers, newly released…

Nine Others Win $10,000 Each, as Experienced Adults Prove to be an Unexpected Source of Social Innovation SAN FRANCISCO - One winner put his mechanical know-how to work and invented a $28 machine to help rural African villagers shell peanuts more efficiently. Another, in Fargo,…

Introducing the 2006 Social Capitalist Award winners--25 entrepreneurs solving the world's toughest problems with creativity, ingenuity, and passion. Because they can't stand a vacuum. The entrepreneurial mind abhors a vacuum. Market failures, unmet demand, even the maddening lure of a blank napkin--all beckon as explicit…

by ALISON HEALY THE GOVERNMENT has been accused of using migrant workers as "convenient scapegoats" to distract from the State's employment problems. Migrant Rights Centre director Siobhan O'Donoghue said there were hints that the work permit system was to be reviewed and she said this…

2011 Winners Work to Create Jobs, Fight Climate Change, Help Immigrants in the U.S. and Improve the Lives of Orphans, Women and Children in China, Latin AmericaSAN FRANCISCO – Civic Ventures today announced the 2011 winners of its Purpose Prize.Five social entrepreneurs over 60 will receive…

PAUL O'CONNOR outlines the role of UCD’s Institute of Criminology in producing evidence-based research for policy-making A LITTLE over a decade ago the Institute of Criminology was established in the School of Law at UCD. Since then, the multifaceted issue of crime and punishment has…