{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).
DetailsEurope urgently needs to stop austerity measures, and support social investment, inclusive governance and solidarity in its approach to the crisis!
Brussels, 29 September 2011 – Last Friday, EAPN’s Conference Getting out of the Crisis Together presented its Working Paper: Re-engaging Hope and Expectations – getting out of the crisis together, highlighting 12 key elements for viable alternative approaches for an inclusive recovery.
Details26/09 – Social Platform and EAPN attended a Ministerial conference of the Polish EU presidency in Wrocław, Poland, to discuss responses to the social impact of the economic crisis and how to intensify the support to innovation within social policies. Katherine Duffy, EAPN UK presented the key findings and outcomes of EAPN’s conference: getting out of the crisis together.
Details26-28/09 – MAPP activists and representatives of civil-society organizations from throughout the FYROM submitted the declaration of the people living in poverty and social exclusion to the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs. The activists from the Macedonian Anti-Poverty Platform (MAPP) and the representatives of civil-society organizations, supported by their partners from the European Anti-Poverty Network, the Institute for Human Rights L.
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{jathumbnail}This conference aimed at providing a unique space for exchange between anti-poverty activists, trade-unionists, other NGOs activists, policy decision makers and researchers on the causes and the consequences of the crisis and on possible alternative approaches. As a participative network, the voice of people experiencing poverty was at the centre of the debates which gave a large space to the presentation of members’ experiences and mobilisations.
{jathumbnail}We know there are enough resources for everyone – all is needed is political will. On Tuesday 4 October, MEP Karima Delli and EAPN held a public presentation of EAPN’s explainer on Wealth, inequality and social polarisation in the EU. Speakers included Michael Moser, Vice President of EAPN, Martin Schürtz, expert on wealth and inequalities and Andrew Watt, Senior Researcher at the Eurropean Trade Union Institute (ETUI).
{jathumbnail}Brussels, 23 September 2011 – Today, EAPN is holding a major conference on ‘Getting out of the Crisis Together’, gathering a wide range of actors (anti-poverty activists, trade-unionists, other NGOs activists, policy decision makers and researchers) on the causes and the consequences of the crisis and on possible alternative approaches.
DetailsPoland has translated the EAPN explainer on Adequacy Minimum Income, and also the second version of the Manual on Structural Funds.
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09 September will be the last day of the exhibition of and hosted by the Walloon Network of EAPN, “A moi! Les Limites de ma liberté” (“the limits of my freedom”) in Namur, Belgium. bureau@rwlp.be.
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