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In their new book, “Half the Sky,” Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl Wu Dunn assert that there can be no social or economic justice, or human rights progress around the world, that does not have women and girls at its core. It’s a…

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Conor Neill (6) with his class in the Doodle Den in St Michael’s Infants School in Limerick. Photograph: Brian Gavin/Press 22[/caption] By Carl O'Brien A few weeks ago Siobhán Neill took her six-year-old son, Conor, to McDonald’s as a treat. She…

OPINION  Doron Isaacs of Equal Education describes the organisation's campaign that got the Minister of Basic Education to settle their court case last week.On Monday 12 November I was sitting in a meeting at Equal Education head office in Khayelitsha and noticed the red light…

Original Source and Video Broadcast: 30/07/2009 Reporter: Kerry O'Brien Quietly spoken American billionaire Chuck Feeney has flown under the public radar for most of his long and very successful life. Over decades he built an international empire of duty free stores, but in the eighties,…

South Africa's leading LGBT organisations have slammed the government for failing yet again to uphold gay and lesbian rights in the international arena. The Joint Working Group, which represents a network of 26 lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex organisations, said that it is deeply…

Original Source To the Editor: Structural-racism training programs have helped hundreds of nonprofit organizations and community foundations, many of which are administered or operated by white people but primarily serve people of color, learn how to orient their theories of change from charity to empowerment…

Anonymous Gifts Are Growing, But Groups Are Under Pressure To Reveal Benefactors' Names As anonymous giving to charities increases, it's getting harder for donors to maintain the anonymous part. Wealthy philanthropists last year made 37 gifts of $5 million or more without publicly revealing their…

Zoliswa Nkonyana, Zizakele Sigasa, and Salome Masooa helped me to understand the critical importance of Atlantic’s work to support the rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgendered and intersex people in South Africa. Sadly, these young women were not among the many South Africans I…