One of our active members, Mr Charles Miceli, passed away suddenly in March this year. His loss was a shock to all of us and a greater loss to people experiencing poverty in Malta since for several years, he was their voice. We asked his wife, Mrs. Pauline Miceli, to write a tribute.
On 17 July, the Irish Government, represented by Minister Denis Naughten, presented its first progress report on their implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals in Ireland. This took place at the High Level Political Forum in the UN in New York. The 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals are interlinked and No 1 is to…
EU must at all costs avoid a moral defeat and put in practice its best reasons for existing: solidarity, defence of human rights and peace. Thousands of boat-people in search of a better future, or simply in search of survival, are landing daily on the southern borders of Europe. They land on European soil and are exhausted,…
EAPN’s 2018 annual conference was held on 5 July, under the title Social Protection for All! How can the Social Pillar and SDGs build stronger welfare states? The conference exchanged together on the following questions: What is Social Protection for all? How can we ensure that all people, children, adults and older people get…
On 24 april, at the European Parliament, the EMIN partners, together with experts by experience, Commissioner Marianne Thyssen, Mairead McGuinness, (Vice President European Parliament), more than 20 civil society organisations, Monseigneur Luc Van Looy (Bishop of Gent and President of Caritas Europe), Heikki Huttunen, General Secretary, Council of European Churches …., many members of the…
On 20 February, EAPN Croatia organised, together with their Minimum Income Network partners, a very successful conference on Minimum Income Schemes in Croatia. The debates were very rich, the conference was well attended, and the media coverage was impressive: https://www.24sata.hr/galerija/galerija-518063?page=1&app_model=content.article&pk=5615 http://vijesti.hrt.hr/431112/u-hrvatskoj-svaki-peti-stanovnik-izlozen-riziku-od-siromastv http://balkans.aljazeera.net/vijesti/petina-stanovnika-hrvatske-u-riziku-od-siromastv http://www.index.hr/mobile/clanak.aspx?category=vijesti&id=102721 http://m.vijesti.ba/clanak/394744/hrvatska-svaki-peti-stanovnik-izlozen-siromastvu https://dnevnik.hr/vijesti/hrvatska/svjetski-dan-socijalne-pravde-svaki-peti-stanovnik-hrvatske-izlozen-riziku-od-siromastva—507419.html https://www.cropix.hr/index.php?menuid=gallery_cropix&gid=115281 http://hr.n1info.com/a282010/Vijesti/U-Hrvatskoj-svaki-peti-stanovnik-u-riziku-od-siromastva.html
A Poverty Briefing published today by the European Anti-Poverty Network (EAPN) Ireland has highlighted that if the Government wants to tackle the high levels of poverty in Ireland it needs to take action at the highest level and across all Government departments. The EAPN Ireland Poverty Briefing 2018 and proposals for a new Anti-Poverty Strategy…
Why do we work and how does work give us meaning? How can European values of justice, dignity and solidarity be realised in a changing world? To what extent might longstanding governance frameworks, such as social security systems and employment laws, require updating? Held on 5 February 2018, the EGE (European Group on Ethics in…
On 20 November 2017, only days after the official adoption of the Proclamation of the European Pillar of Social Rights, the European Commission launched a public consultation on a possible EU action addressing the challenges of access to social protection for people in all forms of employment, as a concrete step forward in making the…
The Derbyshire Unemployed Workers’ Centre (DUWC) received a substantial annual grant to carry out tribunal representation work for people challenging decisions regarding benefit reductions and withdrawals. The funding from the country council will come to an end on March 31. The DUWC is a member of EAPN UK, and contributes a lot to the work…
