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In 2007, a life-saving law in Viet Nam mandated that people riding motorbikes wear helmets. The result was a significant decrease in serious head injuries and road traffic deaths. This report provides an update to the 2010 report on the results of the helmet law, and…

By Pamela Duncan Neglect, abuse and mental illness among parents are among the most common reasons for children coming before the child care courts, a project established last year to examine and report on childcare proceedings has found. The first interim report of the Child Care…

>>Watch the VideoIn all 50 states it is illegal to hit a prisoner, someone in the military or an animal yet over one third of the school districts in New Mexico still let staff physically discipline (paddle) children. Experts tell us that physical discipline of students…

Motorbikes are the transportation of choice in Viet Nam. They jam the streets of Ha Noi, Da Nang and other cities, and their noisy engines pierce the tranquility of the countryside. Families of four, including tiny infants, may squeeze onto one bike, and business people…

"The Trust made me feel as if I was exaggerating all our problems in order to offload my son”Disabled boy's mother A health trust breached its duty to a woman who asked for help to care for her disabled son, a judge has ruled.The ruling…

The Atlantic Philanthropies’ approach to investment in South Africa and the country’s challenges in the face of declining international funding are discussed in this speech by Gara LaMarche, Atlantic’s President and CEO, at the Inyathelo Annual Awards Ceremony in Cape Town, South Africa. It is…

The Aids Law Project, the Legal Resources Centre and Lawyers for Human Rights are Atlantic grantees. by Louise Flanagan Destitute people who were arrested while sleeping outside the Methodist Church in central Joburg a week ago say police beat them, insulted them, gave them electric…

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…

When I arrived in Austin, Texas, the day after Labor Day in 1984 to take up my post as Executive Director of the Texas state branch of the American Civil Liberties Union, a 30-year old Yankee who’d never set foot in the state before my…

The end of one year and the start of the next is a traditional time for looking both back and forward, and a good time to check in with readers of this column – an unusual experiment in philanthropy that we started in July, a…