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Government Promises to End the Detention of Minors in an Adult Regime
Statement from Children’s Rights Alliance By Tanya Ward, Chief Executive of Children’s Rights Alliance The Children’s Rights Alliance congratulates the Government’s promise to end the detention of 16- and 17-year-old boys in St. Patrick’s Institution. This is a momentous achievement for the Minister for Children…
Author: Children's Rights Alliance
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Report Card 2012: Is the Government Keeping Its Promises to Children?
Report Card 2012 was published on 23 January 2012. This year the Alliance has given the Irish Government its best result in four years – an overall ‘C+’ grade for its progress to date on its key promises to children. The grade is in recognition…
Author: Children's Rights Alliance
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Using the Film "The Help" to Help Domestic Workers
The National Domestic Workers Alliance, an Atlantic grantee, is using the success of the movie The Help to draw attention to the issues domestic workers face across the country. In association with TakePart they interviewed domestic workers from around the country about the issues facing…
Author: TakePart and the National Domestic Workers Alliance
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House Stimulus Bill Includes New Funds for Afterschool
Great news – The House Appropriations Committee economic stimulus package includes new funds for afterschool. In fact, the package contains all of the recommendations the Afterschool Alliance put forth to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi last November regarding targeted investments to help struggling afterschool programs, participants and their…
Author: Afterschool Alliance
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Improving access to justice through Public Interest Law Alliance
By Larry Donnelly. “PUBLIC INTEREST law . . . what’s that, an oxymoron?” So remarked broadcaster and Irish Times columnist Vincent Browne at a Dublin conference held by the Public Interest Law Alliance (Pila) last April. We in Pila, and in our parent organisation the…
Author: Irish Times
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Field Dispatches: Voices in Action: National Youth Summit
On 26 February 2011 at Howard University in Washington DC, over 350 youth from across the country convened at the “Voices in Action: National Youth Summit” to help the United States’ Department of Education shape its strategies to achieve President Obama’s goal of having the…
Author: Elev8 and the Alliance for Educational Justice
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Alliance encourages elderly to highlight needs to candidates
Several Atlantic grantees are mentioned in this article. by ALISON HEALY AN ALLIANCE of groups has launched a campaign to encourage older people to highlight their needs when election candidates come calling in the coming weeks. The Older And Bolder alliance said its “On the…
Author: The Irish Times
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Top Cops and Prosecutors Form Alliance to Battle Crime and Prison Crowding
By Simone Weichselbaum Leaders of the nation’s major police departments announced on Wednesday that they have joined forces with current and former federal, state and local prosecutors in an alliance to reduce crime as well as the country’s swollen prison population. The group, which calls…
Author: The Marshall Project
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Alliance calls for action on ageing
By Aoife Carr Shauna Golden of Castleknock Community College, Older and Bolder director Patricia Conboy, and Bernard Bryanof of, Cabra Historical & Cultural Society hand in 43,000 signed petitions in defence of the State Pension at Leinster House last month. A group…
Author: The Irish Times
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Interview - Christopher Oechsli
The Atlantic Philanthropies is coming to the end of its life as a grantmaking foundation. It is due to complete its grantmaking by 2016 and close its doors by 2020 – the largest foundation ever to spend out. Caroline Hartnell talked to Atlantic president and…
Author: Alliance magazine