Results List
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The forgotten parents
Source: Irish Times
Although the civil partnership legislation that came into force on January 1st recognises same-sex couples for matters such as tax, pensions and inheritance, it does not acknowledge they might have children, writes SHEILA WAYMAN. PAULA FAGAN’S partner was working abroad when their eldest, asthmatic son…
Resource type: News
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What Does Collaborative Donor Practice Look Like?
Source: Resourcing Philanthropy
By Gillian Mitchell, Gabrielle Ritchie and Melanie Judge Collaboration is a non-profit and funding term that is increasingly used to refer to good organisational and donor practice. “Collaboration teaches us to leave our strategies at the door and to come together collectively to decide what’s best…
Resource type: News
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Risk with Vision: Placing Informed 'Big Bets'
Source: Resourcing Philanthropy
By Gillian Mitchell, Gabrielle Ritchie and Melanie Judge Philanthropy and risk are not natural bedfellows. For most of us philanthropy invokes an impression of measured resolution, gravity and thoughtfulness. Philanthropy makes considered interventions into areas of society that are not delivering on rights or opportunity…
Resource type: News
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Speaking Truth to Power: The Story of the AIDS Law Project
Source: Didi Moyle
Today South Africa has laws that protect the rights of people living with HIV/AIDS and the largest treatment programme in the world. This would not have happened without the dedicated activism of a small legal NGO in Johannesburg, the AIDS Law Project (ALP).For more than…
Resource type: News
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Resilience amidst adversity: Being gay and African in the new century
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies and the OTHER Foundation
Commissioned by The Atlantic Philanthropies and the OTHER Foundation, this report gives an overview of what it means to be gay and African in the early part of the 21st century. The report shows that homophobia in Africa is rife – expressed through legislation that criminalises…
Resource type: Case Study
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Republic of Ireland's Chief Justice launches guides on civil partnerships and cohabiting
Source: The Irish Times
This article was originally published on 21 December 2012.By Fiona GartlandTwo guides to civil partnership and cohabitation will provide valuable information for gay, lesbian and bisexual people as well as for legal practitioners, Chief Justice Mrs Justice Susan Denham said last night. She was launching…
Resource type: News
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Civil Partnership and Ireland: How a Minority Achieved a Majority
Source: Clear Thinking Communications & Center for Evaluation Innovation
In 2010, Ireland enacted some of the most far-reaching legal protections for gay and lesbian couples in the world. The case study describes the story of how this historic legislation gained passage in a largely Catholic country that just 16 years earlier had decriminalised homosexual…
Resource type: Research Report
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Defending Democracy and Delivering on the Constitution
Equal Education student members march for better school infrastructure. Photo: Equal Education Throngs of students protested outside the South African Parliament in Cape Town on a sunny afternoon in February 2011. Wearing green T-shirts and carrying handscrawled signs, they set up an outdoor classroom complete…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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GLEN: Evaluation of the Building Sustainable Change Programme
Source: PA Consulting Group
The Gay and Lesbian Equality Network (GLEN) in Ireland achieved significant progress under an ambitious five-year programme to achieve equality for lesbian, gay and bisexual people, according to an evaluation by the PA Consulting Group. Through the programme, which was funded by Atlantic, GLEN played…
Resource type: Research Report
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Musina Legal Advice Office
The United Reform Church in Musina, South Africa, has provided a safe haven for refugees coming into the country from Zimbabwe. Most of the women refugees there were either tortured by Zimbabwean security forces or raped while crossing the border, and the church provided them…
Resource type: Grantee Story