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By CORMAC O’KEEFFE The criminal justice system is spending "increasing and wasteful" sums of scare resources with poor results, a conference will hear today. Penal reform and children’s groups are calling for a shift from criminal justice to social justice, claiming that "modest investments" in…

FRANNY RABKINSA’s political tumult loomed large at Liliesleaf Farm in Johannesburg on Thursday as a group of business, legal and intellectual leaders came together to form a new civil society body to promote the constitution and guard against what the Congress of South African Trade…

Jeremy Hunt's push for new local TV and online services received a boost today, with the announcement that Bob Geldof's media company Ten Alps is launching The Detail, a Belfast-based news and current affairs website. The Detail will launch in January and is backed by…

July 6, 2010 – Dall W. Forsythe has been appointed Vice President for Finance and Operations at The Atlantic Philanthropies effective July 6, 2010, President and CEO Gara LaMarche announced today. In this role, Forsythe will oversee the Finance and Information Technology departments and will…

HOUSTON — The Rev. John W. Bowie knows it is hard to sell the people in his neighborhood on the idea that they should support changing immigration laws to give illegal immigrants a path to citizenship. His church lies in one of the oldest black…

It's not due to open until July next year, but the bold new St. Patrick's Hospital and Marymount Hospice site in Curraheen is already taking shape. DAVID FORSYTHE had a guided tour of the new EUR55million complex IF you've driven along the Ballincollig Bypass lately,…

The Participation and the Practice of Rights (PPR) Project is an Atlantic grantee. Inez McCormack, the well known trade union, women’s and human rights activist, returns to Northern Ireland today (Monday 15 March) following Meryl Streep’s portrayal of her life in a New York play…

Foundations should take a stance of engaged and critical discomfort with government no matter who is in charge, said Gara LaMarche, The Atlantic Philanthropies’ President and CEO, in this speech at the Hudson Institute-Betsy and Walter Stern Conference Center. I am always glad to take…

By Kirk Johnson. Lingle, Wyo. — Norma Clark, 80, slipped on the ice out by the horse corral one afternoon and broke her hip in four places. Alone, it took her three hours to drag herself the 40 yards back to the house through snow…

I returned this weekend from an extended visit to South Africa, where Atlantic has long been engaged in supporting organisations and leaders working on human rights, reconciliation and health issues. Ordinarily in a column, I try to drill down on some particular aspect of our…