Results List
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Indicators: Essential Tools in the Realization of Human Rights
The work of the Participation and the Practice of Rights Project, an Atlantic grantee through the Reconciliation & Human Rights programme in Northern Ireland, is featured in this newly published guide to human rights indicators as an example of how people can effectively use qualitative and…
Author: United Nations Human Rights
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The United States and the World Since 9/11: Less Safe and Less Free
One result of the Bush Administration’s striking combination of ineptitude and contempt for law and government is a growing shelf, on its way to becoming a library, of books that chronicle and analyze the ways in which constitutional rights and international law have been assaulted…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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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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Spanish Film on Sex Trafficking Wins 2011 Human Rights Film Awards
Spanish actress-turned film director Mabel Lozano (pictured here with producer Monica Lopez and 2010 Award Winner Dearbhla Glynn) scooped top prize in the prestigious ICCL Human Rights Film Awards at the Irish Film Institute this evening (Wednesday, 15 June 2011). Lozano first caught the public…
Author: Irish Council for Civil Liberties Human Rights
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South Africa: Farmworkers’ Dismal, Dangerous Lives
Originally published on August 23, 2011 Workers Protected by Law, but Not in the Fields Ripe with Abuse Human Rights Conditions in South Africa’s Fruit and Wine Industries > Read the report > View photographs, videos, resources and more. (Cape Town) – Workers in…
Author: Human Rights Watch
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Historic Decision at the United Nations
Human Rights Council Passes First-Ever Resolution on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (Geneva) – In a groundbreaking achievement for upholding the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the United Nations Human Rights Council has passed a resolution on human rights violations based…
Author: Human Rights Watch
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UN review puts Irish human rights record under scrutiny
MARK KELLY Thu, Oct 06, 2011 OPINION: MINISTER FOR Justice Alan Shatter and senior officials are in Geneva today, facing a series of tough questions posed by our European neighbours and by other UN member states on Ireland’s human rights record. The hearing forms part of…
Author: The Irish Times
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Sara Gould Joins the Foundation Center as Visiting Fellow
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Cheryl LoeCommunications Project ManagerThe Foundation Center(888) 356-0354, ext. 701communications@foundationcenter.org New York, NY — February 15, 2011. Sara K. Gould, former president and CEO of the Ms. Foundation for Women, has joined the Foundation Center in the role of The Atlantic Philanthropies Senior Fellow.…
Author: The Foundation Center
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The Foundation Center Elects Two New Board Members: Marcia Smith and Valdemar de Oliveira Neto
NEW YORK, May 19 — The Foundation Center, the nation’s leading authority on organized philanthropy, has elected two new trustees to its board: Marcia A. Smith and Valdemar Neto (known as “Maneto”). Ms. Smith is senior vice president at The Atlantic Philanthropies, a global foundation…
Author: The Foundation Center
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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