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The Talk
Source: StoryCorps
One of the first times Nicholas Peart was stopped and frisked by the NYPD was on his 18th birthday. How can he explain the Stop and Frisk policy to his two younger brothers? Learn More The Center for Constituional Rights, a legal and educational organisation…
Resource type: Video
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Combatting Stereotypes of Gays and Lesbians
Under democracy and a progressive constitution, South Africa’s gay and lesbian community has won rights unequalled just about anywhere in the world. But for the majority of the country’s gays and lesbians – those who are black or poor – these rights largely exist only…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Gay and Lesbian Refugees in South Africa: ‘We Thought You’d Accept Us’
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
Gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and inter-sex Africans seek asylum and refuge in South Africa, where the Constitution promises equal rights. Tolerance and acceptance, however, does not come easily. Find out how gay rights activism has helped challenge and overcome xenophobia and homophobia. Learn More PASSOP…
Resource type: Video
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South Africa’s Journey to Democracy: Reflections by Albie Sachs
Source: C. S. Mott Foundation
How has South Africa changed in its journey toward democracy? Albie Sachs, an internationally known human rights activist who spent twenty-four years in exile during apartheid, reflects on this question. Sachs, 78, lost his arm in a bomb attack by South African security agents during his…
Resource type: Video
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Giving Hope and Dignity to the Poor: The Story of ProBono.org
Source: Probono.Org
Probono.org, a South Africa clearing house that seeks to increase access to justice through the pro bono services of law firms, provides a model that substantially reduces public interest law costs since it unlocks private legal expertise, according to this case study commissioned by The…
Resource type: Case Study
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Hassan v. NYPD
Source: Flatbush Pictures
In a Pulitzer Prize-winning series of stories, the Associated Press revealed through leaked documents that the New York Police Department (NYPD) had secretly launched a vast program of human mapping and surveillance carried out by a so-called “demographics” unit that targeted Muslim communities in New…
Resource type: Video
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Eastern Cape Schools Solidarity Visit
Source: Equal Education
From 23-26 April 2013 Archbishop Thabo Makgoba lead a delegation of eminent South Africans on an Eastern Cape Schools Solidarity Visit organised by Equal Education. The delegates were able to witness the extent of the infrastructure crisis and draw attention to the dire need for infrastructure…
Resource type: Video
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Defending Democracy and Delivering on the Constitution
Equal Education student members march for better school infrastructure. Photo: Equal Education Throngs of students protested outside the South African Parliament in Cape Town on a sunny afternoon in February 2011. Wearing green T-shirts and carrying handscrawled signs, they set up an outdoor classroom complete…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Providing a Vital Social-Security Safety Net
Greater access to services and protection of socio-economic rights are at the heart of a successful Atlantic-funded programme in South Africa. And individual women are leading the effort to provide a vital social-security safety net in poor rural communities. Based at the University of KwaZulu-Natal,…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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The Constitution and the Courts: Transforming Lives
Source: Resourcing Philanthropy
In South Africa the Constitution and the Courts are critical avenues for ensuring the delivery of basic human rights across all communities. In this video, civil society activists, donors and a Constitutional Court justice reflect on how the legal system has been used to enforce socio-economic…
Resource type: Video