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Field Dispatches: Winning Civil Partnerships in Ireland
In early July of this year, both houses of the Irish Parliament passed a landmark Civil Partnerships law, guaranteeing new rights to same-sex couples. The bill – “one of the most important pieces of civil rights legislation in 90 years” – was signed into law…
Author: Q & A with the Gay & Lesbian Equality Network
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Detainee Rights: A Step Forward in the U.S., Back in the UK
Last week was a dramatic one, on both sides of the Atlantic, in the battle to preserve fundamental human rights against the recent disturbing tendencies of two of the world’s leading democracies to invoke fear of terrorism to claim extraordinary and excessive powers. In the…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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Political 'system' putting off youth
RTE Radio News at One interview (July 29)‘Almost 50% of young people unhappy with Ireland’ By Deaglán de Bréadún THE LACK of engagement in Irish politics by young people reflects the conservative nature of the system, the MacGill Summer School was told yesterday. Speaking on…
Author: The Irish Times
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Human Rights update
Christmas good news storiesAs the year draws to a close, we’d like to share two recent good news stories that involve ICI clients. 1) A client, a migrant woman who experienced domestic violence, was granted a renewal of her residency status on an independent basis…
Author: Immigrant Council of Ireland (ICI) News Bulletin
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Free speech advocate 'in hot seat'
By Wilson Johwa. No sooner had she joined the Freedom of Expression Institute (FXI), than Ayesha Kajee was thrust into the middle of the tussle over press freedom. Ms Kajee took over as director of the FXI on July 1, coming from the University of…
Author: Business Day
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Northern Ireland: Sinn Fein warns it may abandon power sharing in policing row
by Henry McDonald Power sharing in Northern Ireland was under threat yesterday after warnings from Sinn Fein that it may pull out of the Stormont government over the failure to devolve policing and justice powers. Unionists warned last night that the republican party’s increasingly bellicose…
Author: The Guardian (London)
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TAC calls for 'flawed' medicines bill to be scrapped
The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) was expected to make a submission today before Parliament objecting to the proposed Medicines and Related Substances Amendment Bill, which would in essence grant the health minister full authority over the registration of medicines. The TAC was to ask the…
Author: Cape Argus (South Africa)
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20 Years On, South Africa's Remarkable Constitution Remains Unfulfilled
By Christopher Oechsli and Darren Walker Commentary: Realizing Mandela’s vision of a democratic future is a collective global responsibility. A statue of Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s first democratic president and Nobel Laureate is pictured outside the parliament. (RODGER BOSCH/AFP/Getty Images) Over a year after the…
Author: GlobalPost
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Young People Demand: Where Is My Public Servant?
By Dan Jellinek Public Achievement chief executive Paul Smyth A Northern Ireland-based project helping young people from tough social backgrounds become online political campaigners is looking to expand its model outside the UK, UKAuthority.com has learned. WIMPS – “Where Is My Public Servant?” – was…
Author: UK Authority
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Chuck Feeney donates €15 million to fight child poverty
In keeping with Atlantic Founding Chairman Charles F. Feeney’s Giving While Living approach to philanthropy, Atlantic will conclude its grantmaking by 2016 with the objective of addressing big urgent problems– with maximum impact – in a limited timeframe. This article looks at an example of…
Author: The Irish Times