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Atlantic’s Culminating Grants: Cultivating Change
In his latest instalment in a series chronicling Atlantic’s limited life, Tony Proscio at the Duke University Center for Strategic Philanthropy & Civil Society conjures the image of a harvest to describe our work in Atlantic’s final years. The metaphor is apt. We want to…
Author: Christopher G. Oechsli, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies
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Supporting Initiatives By and For Women Is Critical To Achieving Social Justice
In their new book, “Half the Sky,” Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl Wu Dunn assert that there can be no social or economic justice, or human rights progress around the world, that does not have women and girls at its core. It’s a…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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Jackson urges people to vote but says power may lie outside political system
By ALISON HEALY. IF PEOPLE do not vote in the general election, then they lose the right to criticise, US civil rights activist Rev Jesse Jackson has told an audience in Dublin. He said people should vote for politicians they could trust, but when asked…
Author: Irish Times
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Judge Rules NYPD Stop-and-Frisk Practices Unconstitutional, Racially Discriminatory
In a historic ruling on 12 August 2013, a federal judge found the New York City Police Department (NYPD) stop-and-frisk practices — which entail temporarily detaining people on the street, questioning them, and possibly also frisking or searching them — unconstitutional and racially discriminatory. This legal victory…
Author: The Atlantic Philanthropies
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Seanad passes Partnership Bill
By Harry McGee. Legislation giving effect to civil partnerships passed all stages in the Seanad by 48 to four votes tonight. The first civil registrations for same-sex couples are likely to take place next January following overwhelming approval of the enabling legislation by the Oireachtas…
Author: The Irish Times
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Federal Appeals Court Blocks Parts of Alabama’s Discriminatory Anti-Immigrant Law
Court Issues Order Temporarily Enjoining Business Transaction and Contract Provisions of HB 56 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASECONTACT: (212) 549-2666; media@aclu.org ATLANTA – The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit today blocked two key sections of Alabama’s anti-immigrant law pending a final ruling on the appeal. Parts of…
Author: ACLU
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Analysis Finds Dramatic Spike in NYC Suspensions: Black Children and Students with Special Needs Most Affected
The number of student suspensions in New York City public schools spiked dramatically over the past decade while the length of suspensions grew longer – a phenomenon disproportionally affecting black students and students with disabilities, according to a report released today by the New York…
Author: New York Civil Liberties Union
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This Week in PubHub: LGBTQ Issues
(Kyoko Uchida manages PubHub, the Foundation Center’s online catalog of foundation-sponsored publications. In her last post, she looked at four reports that examined efforts to protect and promote international human rights.) This week PubHub is concluding its month-long focus on civil and human rights by featuring…
Author: Philantopic, a blog from Philanthropy News Digest
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Couple happy to play part in Ireland's 'big step'
By PAMELA DUNCAN WHEN BARRY Dignam and Hugh Walsh first met almost 20 years ago, homosexuality was still illegal; neither man envisaged then a time where their relationship would be legally recognised by the Irish State. Yet today, 17 years after they started going out,…
Author: The Irish Times
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Up Close: Blogging from South Africa
Night and a Day in Queenstown Posted by Gara LaMarche | 18 March 2011, South Africa As Jack has chronicled, we arrived in Queenstown, the final leg of our journey in the Eastern Cape, in the dark, around 7 p.m. This was a problem for two…
Author: Gara LaMarche and Jack Rosenthal