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Gay asylum seekers speak of discrimination in South Africa
CAPE TOWN — Gay African asylum seekers struggle to find work and battle homophobic discrimination in South Africa, the continent’s only nation to allow same-sex marriage, a report showed Tuesday. Interviews with 25 Africans by a Cape Town NGO found that 90 percent were jobless…
Author: AFP
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Press freedom is a pillar of democracy
This statement was published in the Aug 24th edition of Sowetan Live. We are organisations that campaign for social justice. The success of our work is dependent on respect for the Constitution, especially the Bill of Rights. The right to free expression and freedom of…
Author: Sowetan Live
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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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Affairs of the heart
Mark Gevisser, creative force behind two current exhibitions about gay life, writes about the dynamics of putting love on show today After I gave a public lecture on my Mbeki biography in Cape Town a few weeks ago, an old comrade came up to me…
Author: Mail & Guardian (South Africa)
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ICI Says Migrants Left ‘In Limbo’ by Immigration Policy
Immigration Council of Ireland notes ‘busy year’ for its frontline services Chief executive of the Immigrant Council of Ireland (ICI) Denise Charlton. The ICI criticised Ireland’s immigration policy and how it leaves migrants ‘living in limbo’. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times By Patsy McGarry Failure…
Author: The Irish Times
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Reforms pitched for Colorado schools' zero-tolerance rules
By Kevin Simpson After nearly two decades marked by zero tolerance, reformers are intent on revamping the state’s approach to school discipline, but the effort to craft new legislation has created sharp battle lines. School-discipline reform has gained traction, as several organizations have mobilized efforts…
Author: Denver Post
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Gay Groups Slam SA Government
South Africa’s leading LGBT organisations have slammed the government for failing yet again to uphold gay and lesbian rights in the international arena. The Joint Working Group, which represents a network of 26 lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex organisations, said that it is deeply…
Author: Mamba Online
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Perspectives Students, Speakers 'Keep it Real'
Original Source By Maureen Kelleher It’s not as if the 7th-graders at Perspectives-Calumet Middle School are strangers to street violence. But still, the man in front of their class a few weeks ago grabbed their attention in a way their teachers often don’t. “I was…
Author: Elev8 LISC/Chicago
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Executions near for 12 on Texas death row
by MICHAEL GRACZYK The crowd on A-Wing A-Section at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Polunsky Unit is about to get thinned. A dozen condemned inmates in the so-called “death watch” cells on Texas death row are set for lethal injection over the next six…
Author: The Associated Press State & Local Wire
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Strengthen grassroots press at community Ground Zero
Original Source By Graeme Addison CRITICISM has been levelled at sections of the press – notably the Daily Sun and Sapa – for racially tinged reporting that allegedly fanned the fires of xenophobia. The accusation rests on the semantic bias of terms such as aliens…
Author: Business Day (South Africa)