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Being lesbian in SA could get you killed - report
by FRANNY RABKIN BEING out as a lesbian in SA can get you killed. Or raped. Or both. This is the “shocking” reality faced by gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgendered people in this country, although they live in a country with one of the most…
Author: Business Day (South Africa)
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SA slams arrest of homeless Zim
Lawyers for Human Rights and the Legal Resources Centre are Atlantic grantees. South African human rights organisations on Saturday condemned the arrest of about 300 destitute Zimbabwean nationals. “We have been informed by the SAPS (South African Police Service) that the purpose of the raid…
Author: The Mercury
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Richard Boone and the Field Foundation: Beacons of Leadership for Social Justice Philanthropy
On a mellow California afternoon earlier this month, I drove a few hours up the coast from Los Angeles, where I’d been on a panel at the annual meeting of the Center for Effective Philanthropy, to spend some time with one of the most influential…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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Inez McCormack: Remembering One of Our Great Social Justice Campaigners
Inez – a Challenging Woman, a documentary produced and narrated by Susan McKay, will be available for UK viewers to watch online through February 20. Watch online in the UK > Featuring interviews with friends and colleagues like former U.S. secretary of state Hillary Clinton and former…
Author: The Irish Times
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Vivien Labaton Appointed Director of Strategic Programme Initiatives at The Atlantic Philanthropies
New York, June 9, 2009 Vivien Labaton has been appointed Director of Strategic Programme Initatives at The Atlantic Philanthropies effective May 28, 2009. Labaton will work with Atlantic’s four programs in seven countries to develop and implement their grantmaking strategies to achieve social justice and…
Author: The Atlantic Philanthropies
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Voting goes to court; Registration lawsuits could shape election
by Tim Jones In a furious, multistate campaign raging far from television cameras and cable TV chatter, scores of lawyers are arguing over the voting rights of perhaps millions of Americans who plan to cast ballots in the presidential election. This is the courtroom campaign…
Author: Chicago Tribune
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30,000 Undocumented Migrants Live in Fear of Deportation
By Aideen Sheehan Friday March 16 2012 ABOUT 30,000 men, women and children living in Ireland are undocumented — meaning they live in constant fear of deportation, the Migrant Rights Centre of Ireland has warned. As the Government lobbies in Washington this St Patrick’s week for the…
Author: Independent.ie
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Groups bash US health care for detained immigrants
by JENNIFER KAY U.S. immigration authorities routinely delay, deny or botch medical care for detained immigrants in poorly equipped facilities nationwide, according to separate reports released by two advocacy groups Tuesday. Human Rights Watch and the Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center blame the problems on unskilled or…
Author: The Associated Press
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Lawyers fight to improve refugee facility
by Zelda Venter Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) are to approach the Pretoria High Court in a bid to force the government to improve conditions at a holding facility for refugees in Musina, or have it closed down. This follows the outbreak of cholera in Zimbabwe,…
Author: Pretoria News
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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