Social Services, crisis and suicides in Italy
23/04/13 – by Nicoletta Teodosi, Cilap Eapn Italy The latest tragic news reports, three person suicides due to financial problems, confirm that social services are experienced as an indignity.…
Social Services, crisis and suicides in Italy
23/04/13 – by Nicoletta Teodosi, Cilap Eapn Italy
The latest tragic news reports, three person suicides due to financial problems, confirm that social services are experienced as an indignity. Confirms the sense of marginality in which a person can find him/herself in a particular moment in their lives. Conversely Social Services are places where one can be heard and more often than not, find answers. Modesty and shame are the prevalent feelings accompany the people used to live their own lives with dignity and never ask for anyone’s help.
SAVE THE DATE 28/06: PICUM Annual Workshop with EAPN and FEANTSA on Undocumented Migrants and Housing
The 2013 Annual PICUM Workshop on the housing situation of undocumented migrants, organised in partnership with FEANTSA and EAPN, will take place on 28 June 2013 in Brussels, Belgium.
EU 2020: Civil Society Organisations call for transparent and real participation in the European semester
{jathumbnail}At a Public Hearing today in the European Parliament, European Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) have joined forces in an ad-hoc coalition to present country-specific recommendations for 2013 in the areas of employment, poverty, education, tax, environmental change and gender equality. Together, they call for a more balanced social, sustainable and equality-based Economic and Monetary Union, Europe 2020 Strategy and effective multi-stakeholder engagement in the whole European Semester process.