BAPN Recommendations on the fight against poverty and demonstration
16/10 – BAPN (Belgian Anti-Poverty Network) organized its annual national campaign marking the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty.
EAPN attends meeting of Dignity International and Ekta Parishad in India
Olivier Marguery, Vice-President and Fintan Farrell, Director attended the recent meeting of Dignity International and Ekta Parishad held in India’s most southern State Tamil Nadu. The meeting with Dignity International was an opportunity to share experiences of building mobilization actions to defend economic, social and cultural rights.
First Annual Convention must breathe life into the EU Poverty Reduction Target
EAPN sends its messages and recommendations to the first Annual Convention – Take Urgent Action to prevent Europe 2020 increasing poverty – Invest in Social Europe now!
European Health Forum, 5-8th October – EAPN speaks in final plenary
05-08/10 – The Annual European Health Forum, was held in Gastein, Austria from the 5th to the 8th October, on the topic : Innovation and Well-being: European Health in EU2020 and beyond. EAPN participated in the forum and spoke in the final plenary on: Health by design – the road to well-being,
responding to the key note addresses of John Dalli, EU Commissioner for Health and Consumer Policy: J Dalli and Ms Jakab, Regional Director for Europe for the World Health Organisation.
Inclusion of Roma and Travellers in the EU: EAPN Briefing
This briefing note aims at highlighting the work of many EAPN members who work directly on issues of Roma Inclusion. Roma have been identified as a priority group at risk of poverty and social exclusion in the National Strategic Reports on social protection and social inclusion, as part of the Social OMC.
Inclusion of Roma and Travellers in the EU: EAPN Briefing
{jathumbnail}This briefing note aims at highlighting the work of many EAPN members who work directly on issues of Roma Inclusion. Roma have been identified as a priority group at risk of poverty and social exclusion in the National Strategic Reports on social protection and social inclusion, as part of the Social OMC.
The 3 EAPN explainers now available in ESTONIAN!
Wealth explainer Adequacy explainer Poverty explainer
EAPN Portugal news
- Iberian Seminar on “The Inclusion of the Roma Communities: challenges, opportunities and commitments”
- ROMI Project
- 3rd Forum of People Experiencing Poverty and Social Exclusion, 17 October
FNARS (membre of EAPN France): the Collectif des associations unies (group of united associations) meets Prime Minister on 26/09
For more than a year, solidarity organisations, united in the Collectif des associations unies, have been calling for a meeting with Prime Minster François Fillon, to discuss the appalling and aggravating situation of the most deprived. Read press release here (in French only).
BAPN : 16 October – Action!
{jathumbnail}On 16/10, on the eve of the International Day against Poverty, a demonstration starting at 1pm at North Station against poverty, but more specifically youth and child poverty. BAPN and its partners call on 3 main demands that you can find in the campaign’s text (here in French).