Results List
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Catalysing LGBT Equality and Visibility in Ireland
Source: Dragonfly Partners
From 2004-2013, The Atlantic Philanthropies provided grant funding to support equality and visibility for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in the Republic of Ireland. Atlantic focused its funding on four organisations with the objective of improving LGBT people’s access to rights and services.…
Resource type: Research Report
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Successful Grants: Civil Partnership for Same-Sex Couples
Source: Alliance Magazine
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="250"] Michael Murphy (left) and Terry O'Sullivan celebrate their civil partnership. Photo: Irish Independent[/caption] Until 1994, Irish law still criminalized homosexual conduct. When The Atlantic Philanthropies entered the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) field in 2004, there were no other significant private funders in the…
Resource type: News
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Stop, Question and Frisk Policing Practices in New York City: A Primer
Source: Center on Race, Crime and Justice at John Jay College
This primer, funded by Atlantic and the Open Society Foundation, presents extensive statistics about the troubling police practice of stopping, questioning, and frisking pedestrians in New York City.The NumbersData show stops tend to be concentrated in a handful of police precincts and that the vast…
Resource type: Research Report
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In from the Margins: Roma in Ireland
Source: Nasc, the Irish Immigrant Support Centre
The Roma community in Ireland continues to experience structural discrimination in accessing their basic rights to employment, education, social protection, housing and healthcare.This report from Nasc, the Irish Immigrant Support Centre, an Atlantic grantee, identifies the often subtle and complex barriers to integration that Roma experience…
Resource type: Research Report
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Death penalty: A pragmatic case for repeal
Source: The Christian Science Monitor
Momentum in the states is shifting toward the repeal of the death penalty. There are practical reasons for this: The death penalty is expensive, it does not work, and it is administered with a clear racial bias. Repealing it is a matter of justice, public…
Resource type: News
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Shared Education Improves Learning in Northern Ireland
[atlpvideo src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5gQZq8zehbk" height="360" width="640"]Sharing education involves two or more schools from different community backgrounds working together to share expertise, classes, facilities and teachers.[/atlpvideo] Northern Ireland is a deeply divided society and the education system reflects the level of separation between Protestant and Catholic communities. More…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Welfare Appeals System ‘Needs Radical Overhaul’
Source: Irish Examiner
By Conall Ó FáthartaThe Social Welfare appeals system, which can force people to battle for years for emergency payments, needs to be radically overhauled, it has been claimed.Last year, the average time to process appeals by the Appeals Office was more than 32 weeks. The department…
Resource type: News
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Immigrants Play Vital Economic Role, Even in Slump
Source: Independent.ie
By Donal O'Donovan Inward migration of workers remains crucial for Ireland's economy regardless of the current downturn, according to new research.The research by economist Jim Power for the Integration Centre, a charity supported by Atlantic Philanthropies and the One Foundation, is the first major report into…
Resource type: News
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Civil Partnership a Cross-Country Success as Every County Celebrates
Source: Gay and Lesbian Equality Network (GLEN)
By the end of September, 862 Civil Partnerships had already taken place. That's an average of two civil partnerships every day since they first became publicly available in April 2011. So, where are there most lesbian and gay civil partners across the country? Dublin 8…
Resource type: News
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Two Civil Partnership Ceremonies Conducted on Average Each Day
Source: Irish Times
By Pamela DuncanAn average of two civil partnership ceremonies have taken place per day since their introduction last year, with a total of 862 ceremonies registered between April 2011 and September 2012.In that time period, 1,724 lesbian and gay people from 61 countries entered into…
Resource type: News