Hate speech is not an argument Ever since 2014, EAPN Portugal has been organising an interculturality week with the aim of raising awareness with citizens on the need for an intercultural society which is built upon values such as solidarity and non-discrimination. Taking place between the 5 and 12 April, apart from local events taking…
Hearing the unheard EAPN UK have recently conducted with people experiencing poverty (PeP), in this case migrants who live in the UK. Migrants have been challenged in countless ways during the pandemic, especially individuals with limited or no Leave to Remain. The Building Resilience project provides spaces for migrants with limited immigration status and no…
Wellbeing, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic PhDr. Anna Galovičová from EAPN Slovakia, with support from the Slovak Ministry of Regional development, has recently published an English version of ‘Healthy Planet – Europe for People.’ This project emphasises the need to consider more factors in relation to well-being than purely economic development. The document explores…
Non-governmental organizations in Slovenia are increasingly targeted by the government’s restrictive measures and hostile rhetoric. Especially NGOs engaged in independent cultural production and defending human rights, media freedom and the environment are being targeted. Legal and financial restrictions have been applied to them and the epidemic is used to justify such measures. The media, the…
Simulations predict that the poverty rate will rise from about 17% in 2019 to about 20‒23% in 2020, and from 55,000 to over 130,000 Macedonians (depending on how long the crisis will last) would fall into poverty. Moreover, more than 75% of those who are likely to fall into poverty are currently not covered by any…
On the World Day for the Eradication of Poverty, AGE warns of the increase in social isolation and loneliness of older persons in the COVID-19 crisis, which is aggravated by the socio-economic conditions in which they live. We also call for specific policies to support older jobseekers during the recovery, as increased poverty and social exclusion…
Publication Impact Covid Covid-19 has tremendously shaken the world, which led to the destabilisation of national economies and political systems, as well as increased poverty rates and growing inequalities. As a result, people experiencing poverty or at the verge of poverty face a whole range of new risks and challenges, such as increased health risks…
On 14 July, EAPN presented its detailed research into the Covid-19 crisis and its impact on people experiencing poverty and vulnerability at its conference How to ensure the poor don’t pay for Covid-19 – From short-term response to an effective rights-based integrated antipoverty strategy. The study was conducted by Graciela Malgesini, Co-Chair of the EAPN…
On the Occasion of the 17th of October, Eurodiaconia published a statement calling on the new European Commission and the EU member states to fully commit to the eradication of child poverty, 30 years after the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) as it is “in today’s Europe, unacceptable that one in…
The Austrian Anti Poverty Network (“Die Armutskonferenz”) organised their 12th Austrian Poverty Conference in Salzburg from 9 to 11 March. The initial conference topic was Voices against Poverty – Because social inequality and exclusion endanger democracy but given the current situation, there was also an exchange about the consequences of the Corona virus on people…
