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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.

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…

by KITTY HOLLANDTHE CLAIMING Our Future civil society movement, which held its inaugural meeting at the RDS, Dublin in October, is to begin a series of regional meetings in the new year.The first meeting is likely to be in Galway during February, according to Niall…

FARANAAZ PARKER Civil society organisations on Wednesday warned that repressive laws, such as the proposed Protection of Information Bill (POI) would come back to haunt the state further down the line. "A Bill, once it's passed into law, does not stay in the statute books…

This letter from Atlantic’s former President and CEO, Gara LaMarche, is the first in an annual series that will chronicle the work of The Atlantic Philanthropies as it spends down its assets and closes its doors by 2020.

CNN's Becky Anderson holds a discussion on the issue of gay marriage.  The interview features Phumi Mtetwa from the Lesbian and Gay Equality Project, an Atlantic Grantee.

An Intensive Institute for Journalists, November 14-17, 2010 at the University of California, Berkeley. The Graduate School of Journalism and the Warren Institute at Berkeley Law are organizing a four-day institute for working journalists on covering immigration, an issue that has become central to debates…

Someone accused of killing a white person in North Carolina is nearly three times as likely to get the death penalty than someone accused of killing a black person, according to a study released Thursday by two researchers who looked at death sentences over a…

This comprehensive 500-page report, coordinated by Strategy & Tactics, was written by some of South Africa's leading social and political scientists as well as civil society activists. The report analyses the conditions that allowed xenophobic violence to erupt in South Africa in May 2008, leaving…

Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee John Conyers, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific and the Global Environment Eni F.H. Faleomavaega and congressman Bob Filner affirmed the support during meetings with a delegation of the Vietnam Association for Victims of…