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Inez McCormack Returns to NI After Meryl Streep Portrays Her Life in New York Play
The Participation and the Practice of Rights (PPR) Project is an Atlantic grantee. Inez McCormack, the well known trade union, women’s and human rights activist, returns to Northern Ireland today (Monday 15 March) following Meryl Streep’s portrayal of her life in a New York play…
Author: The Participation and the Practice of Rights Project (The PPR Project) and Vital Voices
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Waiting for Fahd: One Family's Hope for Life Beyond Guantánamo
This heartrending short documentary tells the story of Fahd Ghazy, a Yemeni national unlawfully detained at Guantánamo since he was 17. Fahd is now 30. Through moving interviews with his beloved family, “Waiting for Fahd” paints a vivid portrait of the life that awaits a man…
Author: Center for Constitutional Rights
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‘Two Countries, No Home’
By Verity Oswin Earlier this year, I met a group of young people in Mexico City who call themselves “the other Dreamers,” undocumented young people taken to the United States as children who returned to their birth countries. Some had been deported, while others had…
Author: The New York Times
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Not-So Sweet Home Alabama: What Alabamians Are Saying About Their State's New Immigration Law
Kassi Cruz picks tomatoes in Steele, Alabama, on October 3, 2011. Cruz decided to pitch in to help after the majority of migrant workers left after the new Alabama immigration law took effect last week. By Center for American Progress Immigration Team Alabama has reawakened…
Author: Center for American Progress
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Irish Short Film on Equal Marriage Rights for Same-Sex Couples Storms YouTube
Over 140,000 View Movie with Numbers Continuing to Soar MarriagEquality, a project of the National Lesbian & Gay Federation (NLGF), is an Atlantic grantee. Coco Television’s short film, Sinead’s Hand staring Hugh O’Conor has clocked up over 140,000 views to-date since its launch on August 19th with…
Author: MarriagEquality website
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The Crisis in Zimbabwe: Atlantic’s Work with Refugees in the Limpopo Province
Gara LaMarche I recently travelled to Limpopo, a South African province on the border of Zimbabwe that is experiencing an influx of Zimbabweans who are escaping from that very troubled country, where human rights are disregarded, disease is running rampant, and the economy long…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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Endorsement deadline for Ireland's Civil Society Shadow Report is 21st of March
In October 2011, Ireland will be examined for the first time by the United Nations on our human rights record under the Universal Periodic Review or UPR. Seventeen leading organisations have come together to make sure that the United Nations hears your views about Your…
Author: Universal Periodic Review in Ireland
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Repairing Our Broken Justice System
By Gara LaMarche. This article appeared in the October 5, 2009 edition of The Nation. Since the levees burst in New Orleans and the interstate bridge collapsed in Minnesota, much has been written and said about the need to repair the nation’s infrastructure, too much…
Author: The Nation
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The Perfect Storm
The intensifying economic crisis slams the world of nonprofit organizations. Original Source By Eyal Press In the days between Christmas and New Year’s Eve, Anthony Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, sat at his desk in Lower Manhattan and reached out to people…
Author: The Nation
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Civil rights groups file suits on voter harassment
by HEATHER CLARK Two civil rights groups have filed separate lawsuits to stop members of the Republican Party from obtaining and making public private voter information and intimidating voters ahead of Election Day. The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, or MALDEF, filed a…
Author: The Associated Press State & Local Wire