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Ireland’s Economic Problems – No Excuse to Send Human Rights into Recession
For many around the world, Ireland in the last ten years or so has represented two things: first, a strong voice for human rights and justice, from Presidents like Mary Robinson to prominent private citizens like Bono. And second, a powerful economic success story: the…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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Carey launches new initiative to support philanthropic giving in Ireland
Pat Carey T.D., Minister for Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs, today (Monday, 21st June 2010) launched a new Government initiative to support philanthropy in Ireland. The key elements of the 5 point plan – which aim to create an enabling environment for planned giving –…
Author: Dept. of Community, Equality & Gaeltacht Affairs
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Are Well-Off Progressives Standing in the Way of a Real Movement for Economic Justice?
By Alyssa Battistoni Many progressives are affluent and well-educated. Does their elite status stand in the way of a movement to fight attacks on the working class? Over the past few years, it’s become an article of faith among progressives that we’re living through a…
Author: AlterNet
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In Equality We Trust?
By Nancy Folbre. Trust in other people greases the wheels of economic development. The management maven Steven Covey argues that high-trust companies are more successful than others. Higher incomes, in turn, seem to carry trust to higher levels. But as a recent Economix post by…
Author: Economix
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Ireland's Future Prosperity Linked to a Thriving Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Population
Summary: Ireland’s future economic prosperity depends on how the Government and Irish society plans for diversity and attracts and retains some of the world’s leading talent, it was stated at the launch by An Taoiseach Bertie Ahern TD of the Gay and Lesbian Equality Network…
Author: Gay and Lesbian Equality Network
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Equality, data protection and human rights bodies to merge
Original Source DEAGLáN DE BRéADÚN, Political Correspondent THE GOVERNMENT is proposing to merge the Equality Authority, the Irish Human Rights Commission and the office of the Data Protection Commissioner into a single agency, The Irish Timeshas learned The agencies are being consulted and will be…
Author: The Irish Times
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Justice advocate faces challenge of recession
Original Source By Lauren Foster Ann Beeson has tackled some tough issues in her career as a human rights advocate and litigator, including challenging the National Security Agency’s illegal surveillance of Americans without a warrant and the constitutionality of the Patriot Act. Now, as executive…
Author: Financial Times
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Supporting Initiatives By and For Women Is Critical To Achieving Social Justice
In their new book, “Half the Sky,” Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl Wu Dunn assert that there can be no social or economic justice, or human rights progress around the world, that does not have women and girls at its core. It’s a…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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Older and More Diverse: America's Multicultural Future is Approaching Fast, But Are We Ready?
By David E. ThigpenVice President of Policy and Strategic Advancement, Insight Center Elders are revered for their experience and wisdom in many cultures around the globe, but here in America where our civic, media and business cultures worship at the fountain of youth, elders are…
Author: Huffington Post
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The Global Financial Crisis and Philanthropy: Altering Course in a Perfect Storm
The roots of the global financial crisis, and the paths out of it, are matters for debate. But what no one disputes is that the landscape in which foundations like Atlantic are working has been dramatically altered, and likely will be for some time to…
Author: Gara LaMarche