In 2010, the JournalismPrize for respectful and profound poverty reporting was developed. The aim of the prize is to promote good journalism and poverty reporting which reflects the different aspects of poverty, treats people experiencing poverty respectfully and deals with the background and structural reasons of poverty. The jury is exclusively made up of people…
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…
2022 Faced with the current situation, EAPN France is taking a stand to fight against inflation which is hitting people in poverty even harder. Solutions can therefore be found at two levels, the first being structural and lasting: A decent minimum income guaranteed from the age of 18, equal to 50% of the median income, i.e. €918…
2022 The latest statistics indicate positive developments in poverty in recent years: low income has fallen, as has the number of homeless people. The number of social assistance recipients has also begun to decline. With the abatement of the Covid pandemic, employment figures for 2021 and 2022 have improved and the number of long-term unemployed…
2022 The significantly elevated proportion of individuals at risk of poverty and social exclusion provides evidence that the social situation in Germany worsened during the Corona pandemic and reversed progress that had been recorded in this area as late as 2019. Since the war in Ukraine and its economic consequences will cause significantly worse economic…
2022 According to data from the Statistical Service of the Republic of Cyprus, 17.3% EE2030 (21.7% EE2020) or 154,000 people lived below the poverty line in 2021, with the unemployment rate at 5.1% in the second quarter of 2022, compared to 6.8% in the corresponding quarter of 2020. This is mainly attributed to the sectors…
2022 According to the data of the National Bureau of Statistics (Croatian: Državni zavod za statistiku, DZS), the risk of poverty rate in Croatia, after two years of continuous decrease (when the rate was 18.3%), increased in 2021 and amounted to 19.2%, while there are 20.09% of the total population at risk of poverty or…
2022 208 000 people in Austria (2.4 % of the residential population) are experiencing poverty and social exclusion (as of 2021): they live in ‘severe material deprivation’, and in addition to a low income, they are also facing exclusion in key areas of life (e.g. education or housing). Women are more often affected by poverty than…
2022 People living in poverty face impossible decisions about money, which bill will be paid and which will remain unpaid, what will and won’t be purchased, the level of debt a household will take on in order to make ends meet. Poverty causes significant harm to the wellbeing, physical and mental health, of families and…
Poverty and exclusion in Hungary have undergone significant improvement in the past decade, and the same trend is prevalent in the Eastern-Central European region as well. However, redistribution only favoured the wealthy “elite” segment of the population. All this has made Hungary into a country characterized by the most polarized inequalities, as well as the…