The Romanian Focus week (5-11 July) will try to raise awareness on poverty and social exclusion issues, giving visibility to local initiatives and events involving people experiencing poverty and social exclusion and engaging local and national media on the topic…
“The voice of the poor and the marginalised has been largely silenced in the current recession as – unlike most other groups in society – they have no powerful interest groups to represent them”, said Philip O’Connor, Chairperson of the EAPN Ireland at the launch of a book commemorating twenty years of the National Network.
The Poverty Alliance responds to the Coalition Government’s emergency budget (22 June 2010). The package of cuts to benefits will hit hard.
EAPN Portugal has just launched a micro-website for EAPN Portugal’s activities within the scope of 2010 EY. It is in Portuguese and can be accessed through www.reapn.org/2010 or by clicking in the 2010 logo in REAPN’s homepage (www.reapn.org).
Two members of RENASIS – EAPN Romania, ADO SAH ROM and AUR, hosted 2 international meetings organized in Bucharest, on the migration phenomena and on Romania as a country of both emigration and immigration. For more information, please contact Cristina_Loghin@gmx.net.
EAPN Ireland will be celebrating its 20th anniversary on 1 July in Dublin. On that occasion, the publication “Ireland and the European Social Inclusion Strategy: Lessons Learned and the Road Ahead” by Pat Carey TD, Minister for Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs will be launched. For further information, please contact enquiries@eapn.ie.
On 16 June, 31 civil-society organizations, including the Fondation Abbé-Pierre, Emmaüs and France Terre d’Asile, asked the French Government to relaunch the housing policy for homeless people and people living in substandard housing, denouncing the gap between official speeches and reality.
On 7 June, on behalf of EAPN UK, the Poverty Alliance addressed a letter to Prime Minister David Cameron calling for his support for a relative poverty target in the Europe 2020 Strategy.
{jathumbnail}On the 14th of June, EAPN Austria has started – what is hopefully to become – a large series of smartmobs against poverty. Smartmobs – or flashmobs as they are often called – are short and simple public actions to raise awareness for a specific issue.
EAPN Portugal has just launched a micro-website for EAPN Portugal’s activities within the scope of 2010 EY. It is in Portuguese and can be accessed through www.reapn.org/2010 or by clicking in the 2010 logo in REAPN’s homepage (www.reapn.org).
