Results List
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Human Rights Education in Ireland – An Overview
Source: Irish Human Rights Commission
This report by the Irish Human Rights Commission maps the current situation of human rights education in Ireland across a range of sectors; identifies where there are gaps and opportunities; and makes recommendations for the development of a National Action Plan for Human Rights Education…
Resource type: Research Report
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The Path to Marriage Equality in Ireland: A Case Study
Source: Susan Parker
This case study tells the story behind the campaign that resulted in Ireland becoming the first country in the world to approve marriage equality by popular vote. It describes the factors contributing to the May 2015 achievement, including how two competing lesbian, gay, bisexual, and…
Resource type: Case Study
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Ireland’s UPR
Ireland’s UPR was written and produced by award winning film maker Aoibheann O’Sullivan. The film documents the compilation and submission of Your Rights. Right Now-Ireland’s UPR Stakeholder Report. On 21 March 2011 the Your Rights. Right Now campaign submitted its joint civil society stakeholder report to the 12th Session of the…
Resource type: Video
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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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St. James’s Hospital Centre of Excellence for Successful Ageing, Dublin, Ireland
The Centre of Excellence for Successful Ageing at St. James ‘s Hospital in Dublin is an example of a capital investment that went beyond mere construction. Atlantic offered the hospital a matching grant of €2.7 million over five years in 2004 enabling the hospital to obtain a long-sought…
Resource type: Video
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Civil Partnership and Ireland: How a Minority Achieved a Majority
Source: Clear Thinking Communications & Center for Evaluation Innovation
In 2010, Ireland enacted some of the most far-reaching legal protections for gay and lesbian couples in the world. The case study describes the story of how this historic legislation gained passage in a largely Catholic country that just 16 years earlier had decriminalised homosexual…
Resource type: Research Report
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Celebrating 10 Years of Migrant Rights Centre Ireland
Resource type: Video
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Capacity Building in the Children and Young People’s Sector in Ireland: A Field-Level Study
Source: Mary Rafferty and Anne Colgan
This case study focuses on Atlantic’s role in helping build the capacity of the children and young people’s sector in the Republic of Ireland between 2004 and 2014. The report found: Building capacity at the field level requires a strategic and systemic approach, which includes…
Resource type: Case Study
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Determining the True Scope of Ageism Throughout Ireland
Ageism is the most common form of workplace discrimination occurring in both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Research has found that one in five people experience some form of age-based discrimination at the workplace. But ageism is not confined to employment. Ageism affects…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Ireland’s Top Teens – The Trailer
”Ireland’s Top Teens” comes to TV screen near you. The show will profile ten youth groups who have taken part in the permanent tsb Foróige Youth Citizenship Programme and are now in the running to be crowned ‘Ireland’s Top Teens’. These groups have been selected…
Resource type: Video