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Original Source CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA - Government inaction in the face of deteriorating living conditions in camps for displaced foreign nationals has forced refugees to take legal steps against the state, the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) said on Wednesday. Briefing the media in Cape…

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…

Johannesburg, South Africa When I arrived here on Monday after eighteen hours in transit, I was greeted by the horrific image on the front page of that morning’s Star, of a refugee hunted down by a mob and burned alive, in a grim imitation of…

Every so often a story serves as a wake-up call that something is very wrong with the way the United States government deals with things. So it was with Saturday’s New York Times article about the actions of federal immigration agents last month in Ohio…

  WASHINGTON, D.C. (April 11, 2019) – The George Washington University (GW) today announced the renaming of the GW Health Workforce Institute to the Fitzhugh Mullan Institute for Health Workforce Equity. The action was taken to honor Fitzhugh Mullan, MD, a professor of health policy and management…

By Allison Brown and Kavitha Mediratta Representatives from Open Society Foundations and The Atlantic Philanthropies discuss philanthropy’s role in school discipline reform. [caption id="attachment_54365" align="alignright" width="190"] This article was originally published in VUE magazine.Download the PDF >VUE website >[/caption] The Atlantic Philanthropies funded the work of…

On Aug. 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. addressed marchers during his “I Have a Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. Photo: Associated PressBy Benjamin Todd JealousFifty years after Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, American apartheid is dead. We have Dr.…

By Darren EvansOne project in Northern Ireland has been so successful at reconciling Catholic and Protestant schools that other troubled regions of the world are seeking to adopt its methods. Darren Evans reportsIn the seaside town of Ballycastle, on the craggy, windswept coast of County…

CAPE TOWN, 11 May 2011 (IRIN) - Instead of providing much needed opportunities, South Africa’s ailing education system is keeping children from poor households at the back of the job queue and locking families into poverty for another generation. By the age of eight, school…

The Defendant: Philanthropy at large. The Charge: Not fulfilling its mission of advancing the common good.The Sentence if Found Guilty: Loss of specialized tax status.Culminating the conference was Philanthropy on Trial, a courtroom "mockudrama" that sought to answer the question: Is philanthropy meeting its mission of…