Results List
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A Decade Lost: Locating Gender in U.S. Counter-Terrorism
Source: The Center for Human Rights and Global Justice
The U.S. Government’s counter-terrorism efforts profoundly implicate and impact women and lesbians, gays, bisexual, transgender and intersex people (LGBTI*), according to this report which provides the first global analysis of the rising impact of gender on the U.S. “War on Terror.” Drawing on regional consultations,…
Resource type: Research Report
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UCT’s Law, Race and Gender Unit Takes on the Controversial Traditional Courts Bill
University of Cape Town’s Law, Race and Gender Unit (LRG), an Atlantic grantee, is working with the Legal Resources Centre and local community-based organisations to ensure that people living in South African rural villages will have an opportunity to speak out against the proposed passage…
Resource type: Video
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“A story of great human proportions” – Lydia Foy and the Struggle for Transgender Rights in Ireland
Source: Free Legal Advice Centres (FLAC)
This report chronicles Lydia Foy’s long legal struggle in Ireland to be officially recognized as a woman—an effort that not only ended in victory for her but that led to a fundamental change in Irish law and how society views gender and identity. Foy’s story…
Resource type: Research Report
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Catalysing LGBT Equality and Visibility in Ireland
Source: Dragonfly Partners
From 2004-2013, The Atlantic Philanthropies provided grant funding to support equality and visibility for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in the Republic of Ireland. Atlantic focused its funding on four organisations with the objective of improving LGBT people’s access to rights and services.…
Resource type: Research Report
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Black Girls Matter: Pushed Out, Overpoliced and Underprotected
Source: African American Policy Forum and Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies
Black girls in the U.S. were suspended six times more than white girls, according to recent federal data. Girls of color also face specific factors that push them out of school, like sexual assault, criminalization and teacher stereotyping, yet girls are often excluded from current…
Resource type: Research Report
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STAD: Stop Transphobia and Discrimination
Source: Transgender Equality Network Ireland (TENI)
Transgender people face elevated levels of violence and discrimination in the Republic of Ireland, according to this report from Transgender Equality Network Ireland (TENI). The Stop Transphobia and Discrimination (STAD) report, the first of its kind, documents 32 hate incidents, of which 15 were designated…
Resource type: Research Report
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Out of School and “On the Wall”
Source: Columbia University School of Social Work
A Qualitative Look into the Lives of Unemployed Young Black Bermudian Men and the Gender Gap in Educational Attainment Black Bermudian boys are getting kicked out of school at an alarming rate. Reversing this trend will require better community and classroom support for these boys,…
Resource type: Research Report
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Roosevelt Middle School: Bridging Cultures, Creating Community
A small blue and green globe is passed from hand to hand as parents, staff, and community partners introduce themselves and share about a cultural tradition or characteristic that they’re proud of – and that they want other members of their school community to understand…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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The Atlantic Philanthropies’ Embrace of a Social Justice Approach to Grantmaking
Source: Gara LaMarche
The story behind The Atlantic Philanthropies’ embrace of social justice is recounted in this speech by Gara LaMarche, The Atlantic Philanthropies’ President and CEO, at the Ford Foundation Convening on Philanthropy for Social Justice and Peace in February 2009 in Cairo, Egypt. It is bracing…
Resource type: Speech
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Taking Account of Race as a Philanthropic Imperative
Source: Gara LaMarche
Foundations must take account of race in all of their work in order to get beyond racism, said Gara LaMarche, The Atlantic Philanthropies President and CEO, in this speech at the Waldemar Nielsen Issue Forums in Philanthropy, Georgetown Public Policy Institute in Washington. You might…
Resource type: Speech
