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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…

By Caroline Preston. Gara LaMarche, president of Atlantic Philanthropies, began a session on social-justice philanthropy here today with a light-hearted nod to what he called the "not uncontroversial" nature of the term social justice.  The conservative talk-show host Glenn Beck recently likened social justice to…

The Atlantic Philanthropies mourns the loss of Michael Ratner. For over a decade, we have funded work led by Michael that has enabled the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) to secure justice for victims of human rights and civil liberties abuses. His fearless leadership and tireless commitment…

Martin O’Brien, Senior Vice President for Programmes at The Atlantic Philanthropies, delivered FLAC’s Seventh Annual Dave Ellis Memorial Lecture in Dublin. Ellis was a community activist who dedicated his career to working with community groups on issues including welfare rights, legal aid, legal education and…

The following statement was issued by a group of Atlantic's Reconciliation & Human Rights grantees in South Africa. Civil Society Statement Regarding the Killings at MarikanaWe are human rights organisations that seek to protect and promote the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa (the Constitution).…

Oireachtas Brief at http://www.oireachtasbrief.ie is a new free information service for social justice NGOs and community and voluntary sector activists interested in issues of poverty and social exclusion in the Oireachtas. The Oireachtas briefing service is provided by The Wheel and the European And Poverty…

NUI GALWAY and Atlantic Philanthropies are to open a €10 million lifecycle institute which will focus on research into key social policy areas. Plans for the multidisciplinary institute are due to be announced today, as part of the university’s €140 million strategic development programme. Atlantic…

The new Isivivana Centre, a project of the Khayelitsha Youth and Community Centre Trust in South Africa, has its official opening Thursday, October 13. The center will house a collection of activist organizations, including many Atlantic grantees. Here are the nongovernmental organizations that operate out of the…

A short message from former President & CEO of The Atlantic Philanthropies, Gara LaMarche, about how Atlantic promotes social justice in the seven countries in which we work.

By Henry McDonald and Owen Bowcott.  After a 38-year struggle for truth and justice campaigners for those killed in Derry on Bloody Sunday tonight celebrated the Saville Report's exoneration of the victims and the report's unequivocal conclusion that the shootings were "unjustified". The Bloody Sunday…