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EAPN contributes to the report for the Human Rights Council

EAPN NewsBy EAPN Europe Staff January 18, 2013

EAPN contributes to the report for the Human Rights Council for June 2013 on the human rights approach to participation of persons living in poverty in decisions that affect their lives

14 dec 2012 – This contribution to the UN Report on the Participation of People Experiencing Poverty provides a brief picture of the European Anti-Poverty Network’s (EAPN) work over the past 22 years on strengthening direct participation of people experiencing poverty and social exclusion in 3 areas:

EAPN AWARD for Transnational Inspiration and Learning in the Fight against Poverty and Social Exclusion

EAPN NewsBy EAPN Europe Staff January 17, 2013

{jathumbnail}Are you an NGO or a PUBLIC ENTITY that has inspired or has been inspired to implement new approaches in fighting poverty, fostering the direct participation of people experiencing poverty? Then this call is for you! Deadline for submitting applications is 28 May 2013.

Welfare reform for active inclusion of young people with health problems or disabilities – EAPN participates in final panel

EAPN NewsBy EAPN Europe Staff January 16, 2013

16-17/01, The Hague, Netherlands – This conference was jointly organised by Eurofound and the Dutch Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment. The conference is aimed at highlighting the implementation of active inclusion policies in relation to vulnerable youth and the related reforms to welfare systems currently taking place in European countries.

Mag 2/2012 – POVERTY REDUCTION: WILL MEMBER STATES BREAK THEIR PROMISES? The contribution of Structural Funds to Poverty Reduction

Anti-Poverty Magazine !By Nellie Epinat December 24, 2012

Mag 2/2012 – POVERTY REDUCTION: WILL MEMBER STATES BREAK THEIR PROMISES? The contribution of Structural Funds to Poverty Reduction

Anti-Poverty Magazine !By EAPN Europe Staff December 24, 2012

This issue of the EAPN Mag on the future of the EU Structural Funds tells the story of how the Member States are ready to break the promise they made when the agreed the EU Poverty Reduction Target. One of the key fruits of this agreed target has been the proposal from the Commission to ring-fence 25% of the next round of Structural Funds for the European Social Fund (ESF) and to ring-fence 20% of the ESF to fight poverty and social exclusion.

FNARS (member of EAPN France): videos of the “8,5 million”

EAPN National Networks NewsBy EAPN Europe Staff December 17, 2012

As the Annual Convention on Poverty was held on 10th and 11th December, FNARS and 8 persons experiencing exclusion launched a series of 3 videos to witness how they fell in poverty, recall the scope of the phenomenon of exclusion in France and tell what they expect from the Government.

EAPN Ireland demands that the Government meet its obligations to assess the poverty impact of budget measures

EAPN National Networks NewsBy EAPN Europe Staff December 17, 2012

05/12 – The European Anti-Poverty Network (EAPN) Ireland has repeated its call on the Government to meet its obligations and carry out and publish poverty impact assessments of budgets.

EAPN Bulgaria: national conference on Crisis, Inequality and Poverty

EAPN National Networks NewsBy Nellie Epinat December 14, 2012

The Union of Economists in Bulgaria (an organisation established in the late 19th century) organised with the support of EAPN a National Conference on the subject of: ‘Crisis, Inequality and Poverty: The Bulgarian Situation and the Alternative Policies in the European Context’.

EAPN Bulgaria: national conference on Crisis, Inequality and Poverty

EAPN National Networks NewsBy EAPN Europe Staff December 14, 2012

Landless Indian Movement leader Rajagopal in Brussels

EAPN NewsBy EAPN Europe Staff December 14, 2012

03/12 – About 200 people attended the meeting with Rajagopal, a leader of the Ekta Parishad Landless People’s Movement, who had an exchange with the audience to tell about the “March of the Landless” for a land reform in India which ended in early October, as a 10-point agreement was signed with the representatives of the Indian Government. A representative of FIAN, an NGO fighting hunger with Human Rights , also spoke. This meeting was supported by EAPN, amongst other organisations.

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