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This report covers the exchange, key learnings and recommendations of leaders and activists from Irish and South African organisations representing lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people (LGBTIs) at a retreat, sponsored by Atlantic, near Cape Town in March 2010. Introduction In March 2010, The…

Yesterday, the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA), Atlantic Philanthropies Organisation in Viet Nam and UNICEF signed a memorandum to define the roles and responsibilities of the partners taking part in the project. The memorandum concerns capacity building for MOLISA for partnership development,…

This edition of Letters to the Editor is in response to Peter H. Schuck's op-ed, "Birthright of a Nation" on August 14, 2010.  Contributors include Bruce A. Morrison, a former member of Congress who was chairman of the House Subcommittee on Immigration and Edith Asibey,…

By Grant Williams.  More and more foundations are paying increasing attention to the role of communications in furthering their public-policy work "in ways that go far beyond the annual reports, press releases, and grant lists of yesteryear," according to a new study of 18 foundations…

By Carol Paton.  Jay Naidoo, co-founder of investment holding company J&J Group, has given away a third of his wealth to charitable causes — echoing the “giving campaign” of US billionaires Warren Buffett and Bill Gates. Naidoo, who with fellow former trade unionist Jayendra Naidoo,…

Perhaps because America is a nation of immigrants, immigration has always been a fraught political issue. How immigrants define themselves and how the laws determine who is welcome and who is not have played out in various ways throughout American history. Yet immigrants are among…

Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee John Conyers, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific and the Global Environment Eni F.H. Faleomavaega and congressman Bob Filner affirmed the support during meetings with a delegation of the Vietnam Association for Victims of…

By Noel Whelan.  Extraordinary patience has finally paid off and constitutional change will one day follow. The overwhelming parliamentary support witnessed again this week for the legalisation of same sex civil partnerships arises from the basic decency and generosity of the Irish people. Politicians across…

By Lorna Siggins.  YOUNG IRISH people are turning away from political parties for more complex reasons than a general “despair and disillusionment”, according to the founder of a Galway-based national youth website. Advocacy and activism are seen as far more appealing than the “long, slow,…

The Irish government has passed, with support so overwhelming that a vote was not required, all stages of the Civil Partnership Bill, giving new legal rights to non-marital couples. Irish Justice Minister Dermot Ahern said "it was one of the most important human rights pieces…