Results List
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Giving Children’s Rights Their Day in Court
The research underlying the 1997 report by the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child identified many issues related to the youth of Northern Ireland. A key finding was low awareness among children, families and caregivers of children’s legal rights and available services.…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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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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Collaborating on Transportation for Older Adults Across Geographies
In October, Atlantic funded a U.S. study tour for representatives from Bermudian and Irish charitable organisations intended to expose them to creative transportation solutions for older adults. In addition to addressing transportation needs, the study tour also addressed effective strategies for building and maintaining collaborations…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Keeping Older Adults On the Move
One of the major obstacles to older adults’ participation in society is their lack of access to activities outside their homes. Also, older drivers face the highest fatal crash rate of any age group in the country. Not surprisingly, an estimated one million people age…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Leveraging Information, Insights and Influence To Help Families
The United States budget plan for 2006 calls for cuts totalling nearly $250 billion in domestic programmes – many of which will adversely affect disadvantaged families with children. Since 1981, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has provided independent, well-researched analyses to inform the…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Harnessing the Abilities of Older Adults in the US
…To Help At-Risk Children One of the most common prejudices against older adults in the US is the belief that a majority of them are sick or disabled. The reality is that 85 per cent of older Americans are basically healthy, active and independent. If…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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European Programme for Integration and Migration (EPIM)
Source: The European Programme for Integration and Migration
These case studies raise awareness about EPIM-supported programmes that provide ideas, practices and examples of how to be successful at handling the many challenges related to the integration of migrants in European societies. EPIM is an Atlantic grantee.
Resource type: Case Study
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GLEN bid for the ILGA-Europe Annual Conference 2012
This video is part of the Gay and Lesbian Equality Network (GLEN)’s successful bid to host the 2012 International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA) annual conference in Dublin. GLEN presented the bid at the 2010 ILGA-Europe conference in The Hague on October…
Resource type: Video
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Defend the State Pension, Older & Bolder Campaign
Older & Bolder Premiers Online Campaign Film Made By Award-Winning Director to Help Defend The State Pension 21 October 2010 Alliance to undertake nationwide lobby and petition campaign over coming weeks Government should focus on reforming tax reliefs rather than further cutting the State Pension…
Resource type: Video
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Gara LaMarche’s Speech at MIT’s Starr Forum – Reclaiming the Moral Life of Philanthropy
27 September 2010 Has philanthropy lost “moral clarity,” growing more concerned with the fix, the intervention, than about reasons for doing or caring about what is right? In a speech given on 27 September 2010 at the Starr Forum at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Center for…
Resource type: Video