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ID Card $$$ Approved
by Melinda Tuhus New Haven’s immigrant-friendly ID card – which this woman said has led newcomers to learn English faster – got a delayed OK for its second year of funding. The Board of Aldermen’s Finance Committee unanimously voted Tuesday night to approve the city’s…
Author: New Haven Independent
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Increase in number of migrants repatriated
by CARL O’BRIEN THE GOVERNMENT repatriated more than 500 eastern European migrants to their home countries so far this year under a scheme aimed at assisting destitute immigrants. In the eight months leading up to August a total of 511 migrants were repatriated. The number…
Author: Irish Times
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More Traveller pupils in second level
by Niall Murray THE numbers of Traveller children making it to second-level education has more than doubled in six years but the vast majority still never make it to the Leaving Certificate. Figures revealed by Education Minister Batt O’Keeffe show that 2,317 students from the…
Author: Irish Examiner
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Call to improve care for elderly
Doctors throughout Ireland and the North have called on the Government and Stormont to dramatically improve standards of care for older people. The British Medical Association Northern Ireland and the Irish Medical Organisation yesterday set out recommendations which, they say, would have a significant impact…
Author: Irish Times
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Racial inequality claims rise 106%
Original Source by CARL O’BRIEN and ELAINE EDWARDS NEW FIGURES showing a marked rise in complaints of racial discrimination in the workplace are evidence of increasing awareness of the issue, Minister of State for Integration Conor Lenihan said yesterday. Figures published by the Equality Tribunal…
Author: Irish Times
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FOMACS Launches New Web Site
FOMACS web site Launched in March 2007, The Forum on Migration and Communications (FOMACS) is a collaborative public media project, producing film, photographic, digital storytelling, radio, animation and print stories on the topic of immigration and integration in Ireland, with the aim of reaching and…
Author: FOMACS
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Denying Antiretrovirals To Migrants Hurts Us All
Original Source Interview with Joanna Vearey, Forced Migration Project, Univ. of Witswatersrand JOHANNESBURG, Jul 15 (IPS) – South Africa has become a destination for people from across the continent and beyond. But in spite of migrants having a legal right to free antiretroviral treatment (ART)…
Author: Inter Press Service (Johannesburg)
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Correcting Bush's Math on Afterschool for Kids
From time to time, Atlantic Currents will be written by my colleagues at Atlantic and by the staff of organisations we support. This week, two programme executives with Atlantic’s U.S. Children & Youth Programme, Nicole Gallant and Marisha Wignaraja, share their thoughts about the importance…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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Research Forum on Quality After-School Programs for Middle School Students
In November, 2007 the Center sponsored the second in an on-going series of research forums in which after-school practitioners learn from leading scholars about pressing issues in their field. The topic was achieving quality and maximizing outcomes for middle school students who attend after-school programs.…
Author: The Center for After-School Excellence
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DIT launches Mary Holland scholarships
Two new journalism scholarships established in honour of the late Irish Times journalist Mary Holland were presented at a reception in Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) yesterday evening. The awards are aimed at encouraging prospective students who are living in Ireland – but who were…
Author: Irish Times