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The Advocacy Initiative's first Knowledge Exchange Forum was launched by the President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins on Monday 13th February 2012. Over 100 social justice advocates participated in the Forum. The objective of the Forum is to provide a space to support development and…

Originally posted on September 21, 2011 by Eric Wingerter, Director of New Media, NAACP. Read Troy's Last WordsTonight the State of Georgia has killed an innocent man.In recent weeks, we fought hard for the commutation of Troy Davis' sentence. More than one million of your petitions…

This article from The Washington Post highlights several Atlantic Children & Youth programme grantees that are working at the local, state and national level to reform zero-tolerance disciplinary policies, which harm children by punishing any rule infraction, regardless of severity or circumstances, and often use…

The road to lasting change in the lives of disadvantaged and vulnerable people begins with the courage to ask the right questions, said Le Nhan Phuong, Programme Director of the Population Health Programme at The Atlantic Philanthropies, in this speech at the International Conference on…

President Obama’s election has unquestionably transformed discussions of race in the United States. At the recent Black Entertainment Television Honors Awards, Congressman James Clyburn of South Carolina declared that now that an African-American man holds the most powerful position in the world, “Every child has…

by JOHN MILLER Secretary of State Ben Ysursa has changed a Web site warning that students could face criminal penalties if they abuse voter registration residency requirements after concerns were raised that the wording could scare off young voters. Previously, a page on Ysursa's Web…

Last week was a dramatic one, on both sides of the Atlantic, in the battle to preserve fundamental human rights against the recent disturbing tendencies of two of the world’s leading democracies to invoke fear of terrorism to claim extraordinary and excessive powers. In the…

Original Source By DEBORAH HASTINGS AP National Writer The solution should have been a no-brainer, voting experts say. After all, it was a badly designed ballot that enflamed the 2000 election meltdown and introduced the vagaries of chads to the political lexicon-pregnant, hanging and otherwise.…

New York, July 3, 2008The Board of Directors of The Atlantic Philanthropies has elected Frederick Fritz A. O. Schwarz, Jr., as chairman and appointed two new board members. The two new board members are Cecilia Munoz, Vice President of the National Council of LaRaza, based…

When Gordon Johnson was a teenager, his Dad took in two nieces and two nephews whose parents were unable to care for them. He never forgot his father’s big-spirited act, or the neglect by government care agencies that made it necessary. Mr. Johnson pursued a…