EAPN Ireland (May 2013)
- Four messages from regional meetings to the Social Inclusion Forum
- Women for Election and One Family (members of EAPN Ireland): Engaging Women: Taking the Next Step in Politics on 21/05
FNARS (member of EAPN France) Lifting young people out of poverty : the Youth Guarantee is only one step
14/05 – Today is the last meeting of the working group on the Youth Guarantee in charge of handing out a report to the Prime Minister on its implementation starting next September. On that occasion, FNARS recalls that the measure cannot, alone, be an adequate response to the situation of young people.
EAPN Spain news (May 2013)
- Worshop on ICTs for NGOs
- Secretary General of the Spanish Socialist Party visits the headquarters of the 3rd-sector platform
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.
BAPN recommends the documentary film by Yves Dorme The price of Bread (Le Prix du Pain)
When the price of bread rises, who worries?
Young or old, alone or in a couple, with or without children, unemployed, worker or retired, people’s daily lives are riddled with problems due to lacking money.
KISA (Movement for the Support of Migrants), member of EAPN Cyprus – A victim of labour trafficking is missing
A victim of labour trafficking is missing and is desperately sought by his family, friends and KISA for the last 15 days. The case was reported two weeks ago by KISA, first at the police’s Office for Combating Trafficking (OCT) and then at the local police station of the area where the victim lived and…
CILAP-EAPN Italy: Tired of waiting! Approve it!
On April 15 we will deliver to the Parliament the over 50 thousand signatures for a GARANTEED MINIMUM INCOME
The Campaign for a Guaranteed Minimum Income, launched in 2012, collected more than 50 thousand signatures throughout Italy but this country has not had a political government to whom deliver such a request since December 2012.
We can’t wait any longer!
FNARS (member of EAPN France): over half of emergency-accommodation demands get turned down
More and more families on the streets, and no solution. (more information in French).
The Poverty Alliance (member of EAPN UK): Poverty & Social Justice Must be at the Heart of Referendum Debate
With the date for the referendum on Scottish independence now set, hundreds of people will gather in Glasgow for the 4th Scottish Assembly for Tackling Poverty to debate how to create a more socially just Scotland. Organisers of the Assembly, the Poverty Alliance, want to see issues of social justice at the heart of the debate about Scotland’s future.