Results List
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Documenting Evictions To Strengthen Protections for Farm-dwellers
Some 2.1 million people work on farms in South Africa, representing about 15% of the workforce. Together with their 8 million dependants, these individuals are a particularly exploited and marginal group. Workers on farms earn the lowest wages in the economy; work the longest hours…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Creating Integrated Schools To Improve Tolerance and Promote Peace
Northern Ireland is a deeply divided society where religious segregation is a feature of almost every aspect of life. For example, 94 per cent of children are educated in religiously segregated schools and, unsurprisingly, research shows that high numbers of young children already have sectarian…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Providing Better Legal Defence for the Poor in Texas
More than 15 per cent of Texas’ 22 million people live below the poverty line – most of them in rural areas. Texas is one of 16 states that require county governments to provide a majority of funding for indigent legal defence services. Each county…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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South Africa: Thousands March for Better School Resources
Source: New York Times
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESSPublished: March 21, 2011 More than 15,000 people marched in Cape Town on Monday to demand libraries, computer labs and other resources for township schools, many of which are vastly underequipped. Yoliswa Dwane, a spokeswoman for Equal Education, said that the government spent…
Resource type: News
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Marriage Equality – Civil Marriage for Gay and Lesbian People
Source: O'Carroll Associates and Hibernian Consulting
This case study, based on an evaluation of Marriage Equality's work funded by Atlantic, describes the strategic learning points of Marriage Equality's advocacy campaign to achieve the policy outcome of civil marriage for same-sex couples in the Republic of Ireland. Marriage Equality is an Atlantic…
Resource type: Case Study
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Ten Alps launches The Detail in Northern Ireland
Source: How Do
Factual media operation Ten Alps has today launched The Detail - an investigative journalism portal for Northern Ireland that the firm hopes will showcase a new model for the provision of local news and current affairs reporting. Ten Alps, which is headquartered in Cheshire, is…
Resource type: News
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Quinn signs death penalty ban, commutes 15 death row sentences to life
Source: Clout Street
Posted by Ray Long.SPRINGFIELD — Gov. Pat Quinn today signed into law a historic ban on the death penalty in Illinois and commuted the sentences of 15 death row inmates to life without parole. The governor said he followed his conscience. He said he believed…
Resource type: News
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Interview with EPIM Chair Ms Juliet Prager
In this video Ms. Juliet Prager gives an overview of EPIM, the European Programme for Integration and Migration, which was initiated in 2005 by a group of foundations from different European countries. It aims to strengthen the role played by NGOs active on migration and integration…
Resource type: Video
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European Programme for Integration and Migration (EPIM)
Source: The European Programme for Integration and Migration
These case studies raise awareness about EPIM-supported programmes that provide ideas, practices and examples of how to be successful at handling the many challenges related to the integration of migrants in European societies. EPIM is an Atlantic grantee.
Resource type: Case Study
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City Will Require Police to Report on School Arrests
Source: The New York Times
Originally Published: 20 December 2010By NOAH ROSENBERGThe New York City Council voted on Monday to require the Police and Education Departments to produce regular reports on arrests, summonses and suspensions of public school students, a victory for civil liberties advocates who say that the school police have sometimes been…
Resource type: News