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From 2004 to 2014, Atlantic focused resources on protecting and expanding the rights of immigrants, people with disabilities and LGBT people in the Republic of Ireland. The work of these human rights grantees enabled several important and lasting achievements, including: New rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people…

When Atlantic began its human rights work in Ireland in 2004, it faced strong resistance at the governmental and judicial levels to the idea of setting down such rights in legislation. Still, the foundation saw signs that suggested that the right kinds of investments —…

Joshua Trujillo/AP Images/SeattlePI.comBy Vince StehleThe senseless killing of Trayvon Martin and the not-guilty verdict handed down in the case against George Zimmerman send troubling signals about race, justice, and gun violence in America and give fresh urgency to an important agenda for nonprofits and foundations.America…

CAPE TOWN — Gay African asylum seekers struggle to find work and battle homophobic discrimination in South Africa, the continent's only nation to allow same-sex marriage, a report showed Tuesday.Interviews with 25 Africans by a Cape Town NGO found that 90 percent were jobless and…

By Paul LeGendre Fighting DiscriminationA May 28 article in the New Yorker and a May 31 United Nations review of South Africa’s human rights record bring much-needed scrutiny to the problem of hate crime violence in South Africa and shortcomings in the government’s efforts to…

This dispatch is from Civic Ventures’ Encore Careers campaign, an Atlantic grantee that aims to engage millions of people in encore careers – combining personal meaning, continued income and social impact – to produce a windfall of talent to solve society’s greatest problems.This is an…

Human Rights Council Passes First-Ever Resolution on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (Geneva) - In a groundbreaking achievement for upholding the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the United Nations Human Rights Council has passed a resolution on human rights violations based…

By NATHAN KOPPELKenneth Bernard Rouse was sentenced to death after a jury found him guilty in 1992 of fatally stabbing 63-year-old Hazel Colleen Broadway. Police found her body in a North Carolina convenience store, the knife still in her neck.Nearly two decades later, Mr. Rouse, now…

In the 2008 film Sin Nombre, the audience follows a young Honduran woman named Sayra as she winds her way through Mexico and into the United States in search of a better life. Her trip is lonely and dangerous, and through her eyes Sin Nombre…

By Ronan McGreevy. The party’s over for the charity ball scene, which has been severely curtailed by the downturn IT WAS A gala ball that became the last waltz for the Celtic Tiger. The effects of the credit crunch, which have had devastating implications for…