14/03 – “Minister Joan Burton should not proceed with moves to a single welfare payment until supports, activation payments and quality jobs are in place”. Thirteen organisations working against poverty and for equality today welcomed an all-party Oireachtas Committee report recommending to the Minister for Social Protection.
22/03 – Omroep Max, a Dutch media channel, broadcasted a whole-day long radio and TV shows about the situation of the elderly in the Netherlands, mainly about the growing poverty and social exclusion.The radio show Wekker-Wakker dedicated 4 hours to the topic.
{jathumbnail}Stimulating growth through adjusting macroeconomic conditions remains the principal policy response to pressing problems of unemployment, poverty and environmental degradation. However, the current growth trajectory has neither led to a reduction of our overall resource use – as we use resources and energy more efficiently we consume more – nor created the conditions for full…
{jathumbnail}On 28 February, the Slovak Anti-Poverty Network (SAPN) will hold the second Public Hearing on Poverty in Slovakia, in the National Council of the Slovak Republic, under the auspices of the Chair of the National Council, Pavol Hrušovský. About 80 people with experience of poverty, NGOs working with them and members of Parliament will take…
EAPN Portugal is currently developing national and transnational projects in different fields: Project ROMI (July 2011- November 2013) – National project aimed at the Roma Communities, to promote equal opportunities for Roma women through the exercise of their full citizenship.
The latest edition of the Scottish Anti-Poverty Review is now available to download from the Poverty Alliance website: http://www.povertyalliance.org/publications_detail.asp?pubs_id=83 This edition focuses on the issue of ‘asset based’ approaches to tackling poverty.
Around 10 million people (22.5% of the population) live experience ‘relative poverty’ in Spain, living with 500 € or less per month. 2 millions of them experience extreme poverty, with a maximum of 300 €per month. Read full press release on EAPN Spain’s website (in Spanish).
30/11 – The latest report on income and poverty published today shows that inequality in Ireland has grown dramatically. The preliminary results from the Central Statistics Office Survey of Income and Living Conditions 2010 shows that the at-risk of poverty rate grew from 14.1% in 2009 to 15.8% in 2010.
EAPN Cyprus stands by KISA in asking for human treatment and respect of Conventions and Directives and agrees that there have been cases of violations. The statement made by KISA here below follows a visit to the detention centers in response to the request from many people in the detention centers to come and see…
{jathumbnail}MAPP activists and representatives of civil-society organizations from throughout the Republic of Macedonia submitted the declaration of the people living in poverty and social exclusion to the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs.
