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In a series of media spokesperson training workshops, Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America's Voice, shared his distinctive style of media engagement with NGOs working for immigration reform in the Republic of Ireland. Sharry has extensive experience lobbying in the U.S. for immigration policy reform, and…

In a series of media spokesperson training workshops, Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America's Voice, shared his distinctive style of media engagement with NGOs working for immigration reform in the Republic of Ireland. Sharry has extensive experience lobbying in the U.S. for immigration policy reform,…

The European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) has launched the Asylum Information Database (AIDA) website, mapping asylum procedures, reception conditions and detention in 14 EU countries. The website is part of a project funded by EPIM and carried out in partnership with the Hungarian Helsinki Committee,…

LAST week, nearly 40 people were killed in a complex cocktail of political, economic and social distress. The fact that there was little leadership making an effort to resolve what was clearly becoming an uncontrollable tragedy waiting to happen, shows the weakness of our government,…

The Gay and Lesbian Equality Network is an Atlantic grantee.Kathy SheridanTHE GAY WEDDING BUS is revving up. In the driving seat is Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore, sporting a big red T-shirt with the message, “Civil partnership is NOT marriage equality”. Behind him, highly excited, the latest…

This online case study, commissioned by Atlantic, presents snapshots of projects demonstrating how The
 Forum 
on Migration
 and
 Communications (FOMACS) strengthens
 the 
voices 
of
 migrants
 and 
 NGOs
 who
 work in
 the
 migrant
 sector by using collaboration, creative arts, digital media and storytelling as catalysts for social…

Ireland's UPR was written and produced by award winning film maker Aoibheann O'Sullivan. The film documents the compilation and submission of Your Rights. Right Now-Ireland's UPR Stakeholder Report. On 21 March 2011 the Your Rights. Right Now campaign submitted its joint civil society stakeholder report to the 12th Session of the…

SpunOut.ie’s Ruairí McKiernan talks about promoting positive mental health and booking the Dalai LamaWhy did you start SpunOut.ie? It started in my bedroom in Ballyshannon, in rural south Donegal, in 2004. I’d been an activist with ambitions to change the world. But I became tired of being anti-everything.…

Older people are generally not aware of their rights and the legislation that exists to protect them. Advocacy on age-related issues has tended not to involve older people themselves, but age-sector nongovernment organisations (NGOs) have undertaken the issues on behalf of older people. Through a Seniors Platform funded…

In Viet Nam, the shift in the burden of diseases from the infectious causes to chronic and behaviour-based illnesses requires effective health communication to be an essential component of public health interventions. Traditional information, education and communication campaigns developed by the government continue to be…