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How philanthropy 'helps brave people to solve problems'
Source: The Irish News Online
As a major international conference on philanthropy comes to Belfast this week, bringing with it speakers and delegates charged with distributing billions of pounds, Sam Goodwin talks to John R Healy, chairman of Philanthropy Ireland, about what difference giving has made to Northern Ireland WHEN a conference…
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How investors can banish social ills by putting money in state-backed bonds
Source: Irish Times
Social impact bonds let you help ex-prisoners or former patients – and maybe see a good return DOES INVESTING in a scheme to keep repeat offenders out of prison sound like a good punt? What about one that would provide a Wii Fit to help…
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South Africa Journal: Engaged Activism Bends the Arc Toward Hope
Source: Gara LaMarche
I returned this weekend from an extended visit to South Africa, where Atlantic has long been engaged in supporting organisations and leaders working on human rights, reconciliation and health issues. Ordinarily in a column, I try to drill down on some particular aspect of our…
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Court Clears Way for Prosecution of Cases from Apartheid Era in South Africa
Source: New Liberian
The Legal Resources Centre is an Atlantic grantee. A court decision today confirming the obligation of prosecutors in South Africa to investigate cases from the apartheid era, especially those involving persons who have been denied amnesty, will help guarantee justice for victims, the InternationalCenter for…
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Seething beneath the surface
Source: Mail & Guardian Online
University of the Witwatersrand is an Atlantic grantee. By Monako Dibetle and Mandy Rossouw. It has been 18 months since the violent xenophobic attacks broke out across the country. Monako Dibetle and Mandy Rossouw talked to foreigners from across Southern Africa, locals and experts and…
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Hospital trauma units under threat
Source: Cape Times
by Melanie Gosling Radical changes to the treatment of emergency patients in the Western Cape will damage the province's world-class trauma centres and compromise patient care, doctors say. The provincial Health Department's plan is designed to merge the overloaded casualty sections at tertiary hospitals with…
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Group to lobby for right to wear hijab
Source: The Irish Times
by PATSY McGARRY A NEWLY formed Muslim group has been set up to help ensure the continued rights of Muslim women to wear the hijab in Ireland. The Irish Hijab Campaign will lobby for legislation to protect and support those wearing the hijab. It hopes…
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Up Close: Blogging from South Africa
Source: Gara LaMarche and Jack Rosenthal
Night and a Day in QueenstownPosted by Gara LaMarche | 18 March 2011, South AfricaAs Jack has chronicled, we arrived in Queenstown, the final leg of our journey in the Eastern Cape, in the dark, around 7 p.m. This was a problem for two reasons. First, we’d…
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Time period for immigrants to find work extended
Source: Irish Times
Original Source by STEVEN CARROLL THE PERIOD of time allowed to migrant workers to find new employment after they have been made redundant has been extended by Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern. Certain migrant workers who have lived in the State for under five years…
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Ensuring That Vital Resources for the Poor Aren’t “Left on the Table”
Source: Gara LaMarche
Helping vulnerable and disadvantaged people to make lasting changes in their living conditions is at the core of Atlantic’s mission, and in every country in which we work there is significant and sometimes – as in the United States – growing inequality. The persistence of…
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