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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 —…

By JAMIE SMYTH, Social Affairs CorrespondentTHE UNITED Nations has said it will investigate the Government’s failure to establish clear immigration rules and the impact of steep cuts to the public funding of State bodies protecting human rights.At a two-day hearing due to start tomorrow in…

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…

The Atlantic Philanthropies have announced the appointment of Martin O’Brien, a renowned human rights activist, as Senior Vice President for Programmes, effective immediately. O’Brien has served as Atlantic's Country Director for Northern Ireland since 2010 and Director of its global Reconciliation & Human Rights Programme…

This discussion paper, commissioned by The Atlantic Philanthropies, presents the current funding trends in human rights and international justice, and assesses the needs of organisations working within these fields. Through interviews with 138 experts and practitioners, it identifies challenges and opportunities facing human rights organisations,…

Zoliswa Nkonyana, Zizakele Sigasa, and Salome Masooa helped me to understand the critical importance of Atlantic’s work to support the rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgendered and intersex people in South Africa. Sadly, these young women were not among the many South Africans I…

Orwell was right Original Source Liberty is an Atlantic grantee. Human rights flourished after the second world war. In this video segment, "Tea with The Economist," Shami Chakrabarti, the director of Liberty, hopes their recent decline is an anomaly. About Liberty Liberty is also known as the…

Last week was a dramatic one, on both sides of the Atlantic, in the battle to preserve fundamental human rights against the recent disturbing tendencies of two of the world’s leading democracies to invoke fear of terrorism to claim extraordinary and excessive powers. In the…

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay speaks on hate crimes against lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender people. View video here >> For more information on United Nations Human Rights, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights:  http://www.ohchr.org/

The 1998 Belfast Agreement stressed the centrality of protecting human rights to building a better future for Northern Ireland. The Agreement made explicit commitments to producing a Bill of Rights (BOR) for Northern Ireland. This process of achieving a Bill has been beset with political…