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Neglect, Abuse Most Common Factors for Children in Care
By Pamela Duncan Neglect, abuse and mental illness among parents are among the most common reasons for children coming before the child care courts, a project established last year to examine and report on childcare proceedings has found. The first interim report of the Child Care…
Author: The Irish Times
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Three in Five TDs Met Racist Views - Survey
By Deaglán de Bréadún, Political Correspondent Three in every five of the TDs responding to a survey carried out by a professional polling company said they had encountered racist sentiments while canvassing in last year’s general election. More than a third of the TDs surveyed…
Author: Irish Times
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Migrant bill should deal with violence, say lobbyists
PAMELA DUNCAN AMENDMENTS DESIGNED to protect migrant women experiencing domestic violence should be included in the Immigration and Protection Bill, an Oireachtas committee heard yesterday. Representatives of Women’s Aid, migrant network AkiDwA and the Immigrant Council of Ireland said migrant women were in a vulnerable…
Author: The Irish Times
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LGBT Clients Who Reported Gross Mistreatment In Immigration Custody Remain Detained
The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC), an Atlantic grantee, is dedicated to ensuring human rights protections and access to justice for all immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers. This article was originally posted on NIJC’s website by Jane Zurnamer on 05 July 2011. Defending the rights…
Author: National Immigrant Justice Center
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ID on demand ruled unconstitutional
MARY CAROLAN and JAMIE SMYTH A PROVISION of the Immigration Act forcing non-Irish nationals to produce ID on demand to a garda or face a criminal conviction has been ruled “unconstitutional” by the High Court. Immigrant groups welcomed the landmark judgment, which they said would…
Author: Irish Times
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Non-EU parents of citizens entitled to residency, court rules
by Carol Coulter, Legal Affairs Editor IN A ruling with major implications for Irish policy, the European Court of Justice has ruled that the non-EU parents of an EU citizen child must be allowed to live and work in that EU state. Until 2005 all…
Author: The Irish Times
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Centre to help foreigners opens
Lee-Anne Butler. FOREIGNERS who have settled in the Eastern Cape can now get help and support from the newly opened Refugee Rights Centre in Central. Housed in the Institute for Sustainable Government and Development at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University’s Bird Street campus, the centre…
Author: Weekend Post
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Silent philanthropy finally comes out
By Katy Chance. A “ROLLICKING story of how, by stealth, an Irish American obsessed with secrecy built a business empire and revolutionised philanthropy”, is how The Economist describes the 2007 book, The Billionaire Who Wasn’t: how Chuck Feeney secretly made and gave away a fortune,…
Author: Business Day
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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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South Africa Journal: Engaged Activism Bends the Arc Toward Hope
I returned this weekend from an extended visit to South Africa, where Atlantic has long been engaged in supporting organisations and leaders working on human rights, reconciliation and health issues. Ordinarily in a column, I try to drill down on some particular aspect of our…
Author: Gara LaMarche