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Following the end of South Africa’s oppressive apartheid policies, Atlantic helped the nation make a transition to democracy. It focused on: Supporting activists working to ensure the country lived up to the rights and protections promised in the country’s new Constitution. Adopted in 1996, the…

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…

This video by Human Rights Watch, an Atlantic grantee, accompanies its new report, Ripe with Abuse. The fruits and wine that come from the Western Cape of South Africa are enjoyed by consumers around the world and generate billions of rand for South Africa's economy,…

Original Source Health-e News Service is an Atlantic grantee. Originally posted on March 26th, 2009 by Emily at Jacana Book Blog Book Summary Why were so few people able to declare publicly that the Emperor had no clothes? How was it that a health Minister was…

International Human Rights Day on 10 December marks the 63rd year of global recognition of our basic human equality and the continuous struggle to gain basic human rights for all individuals. Reconciliation & Human Rights made up the largest portion of Atlantic's 2010 grantmaking programmes — funding…

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…

The Treatment Action Campaign is an Atlantic grantee. TAC E-Newsletter The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) welcomes the appointment of Dr. Aaron Motsoaledi as the Minister of Health, and the re-appointment of Dr. Molefi Sefularo as the Deputy Minister of Health. Both the Health Minister and…

by Khopotso Bodibe It was September 2005. South African Aids activists were busy focusing on countering rampant Aids denialism and trying to get government to speed up access to antiretroviral medication for millions of HIV-positive citizens. At Durban's Westville Prison, another sad chapter in South…

This case study describes how a group of large donors found an effective means to collaborate to make grants to small, grassroots organisations in South Africa through the Multi Agency Grant Initiative. The story of the Multi Agency Grants Initiative (MAGI) in South Africa (2006-2008)…

by CLARE NULLIS South Africa's new health minister asked scientists on Monday to intensify their efforts to find an AIDS vaccine amid widespread gloom over recent research setbacks. Health Minister Barbara Hogan said government policies over the past 10 years had failed. Her speech Monday…