People Experiencing Poverty (PeP) are and have been at the forefront of the socio-economic effects of the pandemic and their stories deserve to be heard! We, therefore, introduce our ‘Voices…
A Video tribute to activists by Genevieve Baert with messages from the 2015 EU Meeting of People Experiencing Poverty opened EAPN’s 2016 Policy Conference. Read more about the event by…
June 2015 – Wonder how people bear the brunt of welfare reforms? Watch this film and you’ll get a good sense of it. The Dole Animators are a group of…
22-24/09/2014 – Michael from Austria, Pedro from Spain, Paul from Belgium, Rita from France, Ann from Ireland, Douhomir from Bulgaria and Rolf from Sweden offered part of their time at…
Poverty in the EU Union is a very real problem which brings misery to the lives of many people, curtails their fundamental rights, limits the opportunities they have to achieve…
Contra la Pobreza (“Against Poverty”) is a short spot that brings us closer to the reality of poverty and social exclusion. Giving visibility to the structural aspects of poverty and…
One of the problems with discussing poverty is clarifying what it means and how it can be defined. At the EU level, the notions of absolute and relative poverty are…
In this video, community activists speak about five common myths commonly used by the media. The Stick Your Labels Campaign aims to raise awareness of poverty issues to support people…
In the EU, people falling below 60% of median income are said to be “at-risk-of monetary poverty”. The At Risk Of Poverty or Social Exclusion (AROPE) Composite IndicatorThe At Risk…
The most recent data available (2012) show that 24,8% of the EU population, that is about 124,5 million people, are at risk of poverty or social exclusion. 16,9% of the…