Results List
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Stop and Frisk: The Human Impact
Source: Center for Constitutional Rights
The New York City Police Department’s aggressive stop-and-frisk practices are having a profound effect on individuals, groups and communities across the city. In this report, the Center for Constitutional Rights, an Atlantic grantee, documents some of the human stories behind the staggering statistics and sheds…
Resource type: Research Report
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Transforming Human Services for Older Adults: Progress Report 2007–2010
Source: Alliance for Children and Families
This report, funded by The Atlantic Philanthropies, examines the effect and impact of solutions generated by the Alliance for Children and Families’ New Age of Ageing Initiative at the midpoint of its five-year pilot project. The project aims to increase the number of trained professionals…
Resource type: Research Report
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Protecting Human Rights in Ireland
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
From 2004 to 2014, Atlantic focused resources on protecting and expanding the rights of immigrants, people with disabilities and LGBT people in the Republic of Ireland. The work of these human rights grantees enabled several important and lasting achievements, including: New rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people…
Resource type: Video
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Strengthening Human Rights for the Disadvantaged
The Irish Human Rights Commission, the Belfast Agreement, the European Union Charter on Fundamental Rights and Freedoms, the European Convention on Human Rights and the proposed all-Ireland Charter of Rights present opportunities to achieve improvements in the ability of disadvantaged people to access the rights…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Ensuring Human Rights Protections and Access to Justice
“I just kept fighting to be free. I knew I couldn’t give up because if I returned to Sierra Leone my life would be in danger.” That is how 25-year-old Badiatu Tunis, a Sierra Leone native residing in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, describes being detained by the…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Highlight on Gara LaMarche, Recipient of the 2010 Hubert H. Humphrey Civil and Human Rights Award
On 12 May 2010, Gara LaMarche, President and CEO of The Atlantic Philanthropies, was honoured with the 2010 Hubert H. Humphrey Civil and Human Rights Award at the annual Leadership Conference in Washington, DC.
Resource type: Video
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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights speaks on homophobia
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay speaks on hate crimes against lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender people. May 2011. For more information on United Nations Human Rights, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights: http://www.ohchr.org/
Resource type: Video
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Dissecting Human Capital
Source: Tony Proscio, Duke University Center for Strategic Philanthropy & Civil Society
When Atlantic invested in wide-ranging reform of Viet Nam’s public health and primary health care systems, it set out first and foremost to fill a leadership gap — that is, to find, train, equip and extend the influence of the country’s brightest, most skilled and…
Resource type: Research Report
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Promoting Dignity, Equality and Opportunity for All People
In October 2008, days before the U.S. presidential election, the American Constitution Society released “Human Rights at Home: A Domestic Policy Blueprint for the New Administration.” The Blueprint addresses “the gap between the promise and practice” of human rights in the United States and proposes…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Using Litigation to Defend Human Rights
Since the September 11 terror attacks, US government policy and practice against the threat of terrorism has arguably violated a number of human rights laws and norms. The US currently detains more than 13,000 people around the world, from South Carolina to Pakistan to the…
Resource type: Grantee Story