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Being lesbian in SA could get you killed - report
Source: Business Day (South Africa)
by FRANNY RABKIN BEING out as a lesbian in SA can get you killed. Or raped. Or both. This is the "shocking" reality faced by gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgendered people in this country, although they live in a country with one of the most…
Resource type: News
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Law as a Vehicle for Social Change
Martin O’Brien, Senior Vice President for Programmes at The Atlantic Philanthropies, delivered FLAC’s Seventh Annual Dave Ellis Memorial Lecture in Dublin. Ellis was a community activist who dedicated his career to working with community groups on issues including welfare rights, legal aid, legal education and…
Resource type: Speech
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Professor Kader Asmal to open 15th Out in Africa Film Festival
Source: Filmmaker South Africa
Original Source The Out in Africa SA Gay & Lesbian Film Festival which is turning 15 this year is honoured to have Professor Kader Asmal, former Minister, MP and currently professor extraordinary at UWC, as key note speaker at the Festival's opening night in Cape…
Resource type: News
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Xenophobic rage leaves trail of havoc in Gauteng
Source: Business Day
Original Source by Ernest Mabuza AMID warnings of a looming humanitarian crisis in Gauteng, SA's main economic hub, at least 12 people were killed and hundreds injured in apparent xenophobic attacks that spread to townships and parts of Johannesburg at the weekend. The violence, which…
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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Membership-Based Organizations in Constitutional Democracies: Lessons from the Treatment Action Campaign
Source: Barbara Klugman, in conversation with Treatment Action Campaign national and Eastern Cape office-bearers and staff
Anyone interested in learning about the power of grass roots activism will find valuable lessons in this report about the experiences of the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), the South African activist group that forced the government to make antiretroviral treatment available for all HIV-positive citizens and…
Resource type: Research Report
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Free speech advocate 'in hot seat'
Source: Business Day
By Wilson Johwa. No sooner had she joined the Freedom of Expression Institute (FXI), than Ayesha Kajee was thrust into the middle of the tussle over press freedom. Ms Kajee took over as director of the FXI on July 1, coming from the University of…
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Six Entrepreneurs Over 60 Win $100,000 Purpose Prizes for Innovation, Extraordinary Contribution in Encore Careers
Source: Civic Ventures
Nine Others Win $10,000 Each, as Experienced Adults Prove to be an Unexpected Source of Social Innovation SAN FRANCISCO - One winner put his mechanical know-how to work and invented a $28 machine to help rural African villagers shell peanuts more efficiently. Another, in Fargo,…
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Cover: The 25 Best Givers
Source: Barron's
With money tight, top philanthropists insist on more bang for the buck. Meet the 25 most effective givers. The KIPP Foundation is an Atlantic grantee. By Suzanne McGee. THE NAME OF THE GAME IN PHILANTHROPY this year is to make your dollars go far --…
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