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ECRE Launches Asylum Information Database (AIDA) Website
The European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) has launched the Asylum Information Database (AIDA) website, mapping asylum procedures, reception conditions and detention in 14 EU countries. The website is part of a project funded by EPIM and carried out in partnership with the Hungarian Helsinki Committee,…
Author: European Programme for Integration and Migration (EPIM)
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We are all to blame for deaths
LAST week, nearly 40 people were killed in a complex cocktail of political, economic and social distress. The fact that there was little leadership making an effort to resolve what was clearly becoming an uncontrollable tragedy waiting to happen, shows the weakness of our government,…
Author: Inyathelo
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How gay marriage went mainstream
The Gay and Lesbian Equality Network is an Atlantic grantee. Kathy Sheridan THE GAY WEDDING BUS is revving up. In the driving seat is Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore, sporting a big red T-shirt with the message, “Civil partnership is NOT marriage equality”. Behind him, highly excited,…
Author: The Irish Times
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Eoin Butler's Q&A
SpunOut.ie’s Ruairí McKiernan talks about promoting positive mental health and booking the Dalai Lama Why did you start SpunOut.ie? It started in my bedroom in Ballyshannon, in rural south Donegal, in 2004. I’d been an activist with ambitions to change the world. But I became tired of being…
Author: The Irish Times
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Ireland slow to integrate migrants into schools
AMIE SMYTH, Social Affairs Correspondent IRELAND IS among the least prepared states to help new immigrants enter the school system and do well in their studies, an international study has claimed. The Migration Policy Index, which compares integration policies in 31 countries, concludes that “boom…
Author: Irish Times
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Human Rights update
Christmas good news storiesAs the year draws to a close, we’d like to share two recent good news stories that involve ICI clients. 1) A client, a migrant woman who experienced domestic violence, was granted a renewal of her residency status on an independent basis…
Author: Immigrant Council of Ireland (ICI) News Bulletin
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Empower people to help themselves
By Jay Naidoo. I WOULD like to recommend that we think of philanthropy not simply as a means of “giving back”, but as a means of ‘giving forward’. Taken this way, philanthropy can be seen as a means to promote the stability of African society…
Author: Philanthropy SA
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Campaign starts to protect rights of domestic workers
By Jamie Smyth, Social Affairs Correspondent. PEOPLE EMPLOYING domestic workers such as nannies, housekeepers and cleaners are being actively targeted for inspections for the first time under a new campaign undertaken by the National Employment Rights Authority. A pilot phase of inspections will begin in…
Author: Irish Times
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The South African Institute for Advancement – Making a Stepping Stone into a Milestone
Issued by: Quo Vadis Communications Attention: News Editors For immediate release: MEDIA STATEMENT BY INYATHELO – THE SOUTH AFRICAN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCEMENT – MAKING A STEPPING STONE INTO A MILESTONE A conference that will be held in Cape Town next month will bring together foreign…
Author: Inyathelo
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‘Wasteful’ spending of criminal justice system criticised
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…
Author: The Irish Examiner