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One Year Into My Brother's Keeper – What We've Done and What's to Come
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
By Kavitha Mediratta Head of Racial Equity Programs The Atlantic Philanthropies As today's reports from President Obama's My Brother's Keeper initiative and the Executives' Alliance for Boys and Men of Color make clear, tremendous work has been done in the past year. And much more…
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Lives in Limbo: ‘It Affects You As a Parent and a Man’
Source: The Irish Times
The direct provision system for asylum seekers has a high human and social cost, and adapting to normal life afterwards is a slow process.VIDEO: Heidar has recently gained refugee status and has left the direct provision system. He speaks about the difficulties he has faced…
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Faith, hope and unity
Source: TES Magazine
By Darren EvansOne project in Northern Ireland has been so successful at reconciling Catholic and Protestant schools that other troubled regions of the world are seeking to adopt its methods. Darren Evans reportsIn the seaside town of Ballycastle, on the craggy, windswept coast of County…
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Paeans of pain-filled hope return
Source: Sunday Times
Wrenching cantata based on TRC testimony takes to the stage again, writes Robyn SassenBy Robyn Sassen When a brief season of composer Philip Miller's REwind was announced in Johannesburg three years ago, the news spread like wildfire - and the performances were all sold out in…
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Non-EU parents of citizens entitled to residency, court rules
Source: The Irish Times
by Carol Coulter, Legal Affairs EditorIN A ruling with major implications for Irish policy, the European Court of Justice has ruled that the non-EU parents of an EU citizen child must be allowed to live and work in that EU state. Until 2005 all children…
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Launch of MCRI 'Tools for Social Change' resource guide
Source: Migrant Rights Centre Ireland
Original Source In association with the Centre for Applied Social Studies, NUI Maynooth and the Community Workers Cooperative, MRCI has developed a resource guide for community work with migrant workers and their families. The aim of ‘Tools for Social Change’ is to illustrate a community…
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Seniors stepping out of retirement, into workplace
Source: Fort Worth Star-Telegram
by DIANE SMITH FORT WORTH — Wade Clements is determined to find work. The 61-year-old land surveyor was laid off in September, and he’s now a regular at the WorkforceSolutionsWestsideWorkforceCenter in Fort Worth. Clements was there Friday, editing his résumé and searching online for jobs…
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Seeking to Intervene With Young Adults Before Crime Becomes a Way of Life
Source: The New York Times
Original Source By KAREEM FAHIM Almost every time he was released from jail, Wilfredo Hierrezuelo stumbled back in, once after an arrest for dealing drugs, another time after he assaulted a school safety guard. By the time he walked out of Rikers Island in October…
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Susie O'Neill is seeing life differently
Source: The Courier Mail (Australia)
by Fiona Purdon OLYMPIC swimming gold medallist Susie O'Neill and her ophthalmologist husband Cliff Fairley will never forget the unbridled joy and emotion from eye surgery recipients in Vietnam. One grandmother's reaction especially left an impression after O'Neill and Fairley were part of a Fred…
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The Biggest X Factor in Retiring Is When
Source: U.S. News & World Report
by Emily Brandon Paulette Geller thought she had her retirement all figured out. Geller, 64, planned to work until 66 or 67 to boost her Social Security check. Then, after successful foot surgery last year, she was in the hospital being wheeled to her car…
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