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In "Partnership With Government: An Exit Strategy for Philanthropies?" co-authors Colin Knox and Padraic Quirk share a case study of Atlantic's work in Northern Ireland, where it supported three thematic intervention areas: aging; children and young people; and reconciliation and human rights. Part of Atlantic's exit strategy has…

 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…

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…

Gerald Kraak was a Program Executive for Atlantic’s Reconciliation & Human Rights Program in South Africa, and an award-winning author and lifelong activist for human rights. We are pleased this award has been set up in his name. The Other Foundation and the Jacana Literary Foundation, are…

By Sarah KarlanMany LGBT Africans seek asylum and refuge in South Africa, where the constitution – put into effect in 1996 by President Nelson Mandela – promises equal rights to all.A new video from Atlantic Philanthropies, a foundation focusing on human rights around the globe,…

OPINION  Doron Isaacs of Equal Education describes the organisation's campaign that got the Minister of Basic Education to settle their court case last week.On Monday 12 November I was sitting in a meeting at Equal Education head office in Khayelitsha and noticed the red light…

The United Reform Church in Musina, South Africa, has provided a safe haven for refugees coming into the country from Zimbabwe. Most of the women refugees there were either tortured by Zimbabwean security forces or raped while crossing the border, and the church provided them…

Public interest litigation in South Africa faces several challenges but advocates can undertake four key strategies to enhance its success, according to this report by The Atlantic Philanthropies. Atlantic this week publishes its report on strategic evaluation of public interest litigation in South Africa. This…

New York, June 9, 2009 Vivien Labaton has been appointed Director of Strategic Programme Initatives at The Atlantic Philanthropies effective May 28, 2009. Labaton will work with Atlantic's four programs in seven countries to develop and implement their grantmaking strategies to achieve social justice and…

by Zelda Venter Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) are to approach the Pretoria High Court in a bid to force the government to improve conditions at a holding facility for refugees in Musina, or have it closed down. This follows the outbreak of cholera in Zimbabwe,…