31/03 – FNARS organised a demonstration in Paris and a flashmob in the city of Alençon to call on the National Government to finally put its commitment into practice concerning the housing of homeless people when winter housing centres close their doors.
The present paper focuses on a more detailed reading of pieces of the ‘employment part’ of the Lisbon package, the European Employment Strategy (ie the draft Joint Employment Report and the proposals for new guidelines), and assesses to what extent our social inclusion concerns have been taken into consideration.
{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.
EAPN recently submitted its contribution to the second stage wide-ranging public consultation entitled “Modernising social protection for greater social justice and economic cohesion: taking forward the active inclusion of people furthest from the labour market”.
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.
IQ Roma servis is running a transnational cooperation project “Together and Across”, focused on support and good practice exchange among the project partners in order to promote social inclusion of the socially excluded people, especially the Roma.
In a letter sent today to EU Prime Ministers ahead of the European Spring Council due to take place on 13-14 March, EAPN asks the forthcoming Spring Council to give clear answers to four key questions on Social Europe.
04/12 – EAPN spoke in a civil society panel in this key event organized by the European Public Health Alliance in the European Parliament. The event aimed to help the implementation of the up-coming Recommendation on Child Poverty – moving from rhetoric to action. A key message was that the relationship between child poverty, health and well-being needs to be reinforced, particularly the need to invest in prevention of child poverty through universal services, and social protection, as well as targeted action to ensure access to health services. EAPN provide specific input on the challenges/solutions to implementation through Europe 2020, based on its engagement in the NRPs and NSRs.
In this video, “because values and ideas matter “, independent candidate Robin Hanan argues that Seanad Éireann needs to be reformed to make it representative of Irish society, not abolished.