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Lawyers: Ark. execution method 'dangerous'
Original Source by JON GAMBRELL LITTLE ROCK (AP) – Past “botched” executions show Arkansas’ lethal injection method remains “dangerous and inadequate,” even after the U.S. Supreme Court found a similar method constitutional, lawyers for four death-row inmates claim. In a filing to U.S. District Court,…
Author: The Associated Press State & Local Wire
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Albie Sachs: From Freedom Fighter to Justice on South Africa’s Constitutional Court
By Morris Arvoy Albie Sachs, an internationally known human rights activist and top judge in South Africa, suffered solitary confinement and exile and survived a bomb attack by South African security agents during the arduous fight to end apartheid. Sachs, 78, went on to help…
Author: Charles Steward Mott Foundation
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CoRMSA Report Outlines Way Forward Following Xenophobic Attacks
The recent violence against non-South Africans across the country is not a new phenomenon nor is it likely to end with deaths that shocked South Africa in May. The violence is but the most recent episode in a long history of the exclusion and marginalisation…
Author: CoRMSA
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Refugees 'beaten, shocked' by metro cops
The Aids Law Project, the Legal Resources Centre and Lawyers for Human Rights are Atlantic grantees. by Louise Flanagan Destitute people who were arrested while sleeping outside the Methodist Church in central Joburg a week ago say police beat them, insulted them, gave them electric…
Author: The Star (South Africa)
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Muslims Welcome Shuttering of NYPD Spying Unit
Video: Director of the Arab American Association of New York, Linda Sarsour, applauds the NYPD decision to end the Muslim surveillance program but said there’s still concern about police mentality towards Muslims. By Omar Sacirbey, Religion News Service Muslim and civil rights groups welcomed the…
Author: The Washington Post
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Philanthropy and Government: Striking the Right Balance
Now that both major parties in the U.S. have presumptive nominees for the Presidency, it seems like a good time to share some thoughts on the relationships between philanthropy and government – relationships that Atlantic has considerable experience with in each of the countries in…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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Legal matchmaker joining resources and genuine need
By Katy Chance. IT SEEMS entirely apposite that ProBono.Org has the street address of Women’s Jail, Constitution Hill; free legal work in SA may have had its roots in the criminal domain, but for services in matters of civil and public interest today, all roads…
Author: Business Day
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Atlantic Grantees in Texas Work to End a Lethal Lottery
When I arrived in Austin, Texas, the day after Labor Day in 1984 to take up my post as Executive Director of the Texas state branch of the American Civil Liberties Union, a 30-year old Yankee who’d never set foot in the state before my…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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Fair Representation for All
By Fiona MacLeod WinnerDr Ivan May Memorial AwardProBono.Org When horse-riding instructor and stable manager Gary Allpass won his legal case earlier this year for being unfairly dismissed because he is HIV-positive, he set an important precedent for others in a similar position. His legal representation…
Author: Mail & Guardian Online
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South Africa to ease immigration rules for Zimbabweans
by CELEAN JACOBSON South Africa is planning to ease immigration rules for the thousands of Zimbabweans fleeing their country’s economic and humanitarian crises, an official said Tuesday. Home Affairs spokeswoman Siobhan McCarthy said Zimbabweans would be given a special status that allows them to stay…
Author: Associated Press Worldstream
