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🚨📈20 million. This is the staggering number of children in 27 #EU member states🇪🇺 at risk of poverty. ❗This means, that almost ❌ 1 in 4 children within the EU are at risk of poverty and social exclusion. Investing in children calls for a dedicated support to #EndChildPoverty and ensure every child's potential is realized. 📄 Download the Policy Brief on the #childpoverty from the State of Children in EU 2024 report #SoC2024🇪🇺 ⤵ ⬇ #socialjustice #childpoverty #childrights #childrenineu #europe #elections #europeanelections #euelections #endchildpoverty #childguarantee #eu_social Belgian Presidency of the Council of the European Union 2024 Belgian Presidency of the Council of European Union Ruth Paserman Karine Lalieux Emilio Puccio

Introducing Dr. James O'Donnell, author of the Mapping Social Cohesion 2024 Report. James is a demographer and lecturer at The Australian National University, with expertise in social cohesion, housing, migration, poverty, and population change. As the lead researcher for this year’s report, James delves into the latest survey data to provide insight into Australians' perceptions of social cohesion, immigration, multiculturalism, wellbeing, and other key societal issues. Hear James thoughts on this years report! #SFRI #SocialCohesion

Rising poverty, widespread racism, widening digital divides and growing intolerance against migrants - these are some of the biggest challenges the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights highlights in its annual report on the state of human rights in the EU. What needs to be done to tackle them? ✔ leave no one behind ✔ safeguard human rights at borders ✔ protect civil society ✔ tackle racism https://lnkd.in/daXaenpD

We need to rethink #Migration Narratives 🌍  🎥 1/4  | Racism, Xenophobia and Migration Narratives Dominant global narratives about migration often perpetuate racism, xenophobia, and discrimination, overshadowing the realities and voices of migrants. These harmful perspectives lead to human rights violations—denying migrants access to healthcare, education, justice, and equal work opportunities. At the Policy Symposium on Migration 2023 that hosted by UNRISD and its Partners, the MIDEQ Hub brought together global partners to challenge these narratives and unpack the relationships between migration, development, and inequality across the Global South. By addressing structural inequalities—poverty, age, gender, and race—we explored transformative pathways to improve migration outcomes for individuals, communities, and societies. 🔍 Watch the video to learn more about the key discussions and insights 👉bit.ly/4fkNNzz #EveryStep #MigrationDay Partners: MIDEQ, International Labour Organization, IOM - UN Migration, OECD - OCDE, United Nations Human Rights, United Nations University Centre for Policy Research (UNU-CPR), Geneva Science-Policy Interface (GSPI), Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF), UK Research and Innovation

🗣 𝗗𝗲-𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘇𝗶𝗻𝗴 & 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗶𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘁𝘆: 𝗔𝗱𝘃𝗼𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝗻𝗼𝗻-𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗮𝗰𝗵 𝗶𝗻 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘀 As it is turning away from its foundational values of solidarity and non-discrimination, rooted in international and regional frameworks on human rights, the European Union has entered a crisis of democratic and moral legitimacy. An obvious symptom of this crisis is the development of an overly securitised and criminalising approach in its public policies concerning people in vulnerable situations (people on the move, racialised populations, homeless and people in poverty, etc.). This approach results in discriminatory practices which are not only contradictory with the values of the EU and its member states, but are also ineffective and counter-productive in addressing what are, in essence, social issues. As a civil society organisation working at the international level, we believe there is an urgent need to shift the narrative in the European political space away from its current security obsession, and towards a decriminalised and non-discriminatory approach, centred on human rights and social justice. European institutions and member states should stop considering poverty and migration as threats to national security or public order. Instead, they should consider them as social issues that can be resolved through public policies that address the root causes of people’s vulnerabilities. Civil society should unite in tackling these discriminatory and criminalising policies and in developing and promoting a counter-narrative through research, awareness-raising and advocacy. The policy brief reflects the outcomes of a panel discussion held during the European Citizens’ Summit, which took place in Brussels in March 2024, in which ASF, European Alternatives, FEANTSA and Prison Insider took part. 🔗 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝘆 𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗳 ➡ https://lnkd.in/eifJ6jT3 European Alternatives FEANTSA Prison Insider #EuropeanUnion #EU #Migration #Poverty #Advocacy #CivilSociety #PettyOffences

Horizontal inequalities (HIs) are political, economic, social, and cultural inequalities between major groups in a particular country. A wealth of evidence in the last 15 years has shown that severe HIs significantly increase the risk of political instability and conflict. Yet, they are rarely systematically targeted. Successfully addressing HIs in transition countries is an inherently political process, since it involves a balance between addressing the HIs of disadvantaged groups while minimising the chance of backlash from advantaged groups and/or the hardening of group identities. Discover more in IFIT’s publication “Horizontal Inequalities in Transition Countries: Guidelines for Better Practice”. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/dTG8JKV4 #IFIT #Inequality #HorizontalInequalities

European attitudes towards governments acting to reduce inequality Should the Government act to reduce inequality? Should not reduce inequality Czechia Estonia Neutral Switzerland Ireland Finland Netherlands Belgium Norway Great Britain Lithuania Should reduce inequality Slovakia Italy North Macedonia Croatia Greece France Slovenia Hungary Bulgaria Portugal Across Europe there are huge country differences in the populations attitude to the role of government in reducing inequality, with Czech's and Estonians being against it and Portuguese, Hungarians and Bulgarians being most strongly in favour. At the individual level, richer people are against it and females are in favour of it. We also find that more educated people are slightly more favourable to governments reducing inequality, but entrepreneurs slightly less favourable. #europeansocialsurvey #inequality #publicpolicy #oxfordbrookes

Olivier De Schutter is a #Belgian legal scholar specialising in economic and social rights. He is a professor of international #humanrights law, #EuropeanUnion law, and legal theory at the University of Louvain in Belgium, as well as at the College of Europe and at Sciences Po in Paris. He has regularly contributed to the American University #Washington College of Law Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law. On May 1, 2020, he was appointed as the #UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights. Four years later, De Schutter submitted a report to the United Nations that warns humanity’s obsession with growth is enriching elites and killing the planet. We need an economy based on human rights, the report argues. It goes on to say economic growth allows the few to grow ever wealthier and that ending poverty and environmental catastrophe demands fresh thinking. Here is the introduction to that report: The dominant approach to the fight against poverty relies on increasing the aggregate output of the economy (measured as the gross domestic product), combined with post-market redistribution through taxes and transfers. The Special Rapporteur argues, however, that the current focus on increasing the gross domestic product ia misguided. An increase in gross domestic product is not a precondition for the realisation of human rights or for combating poverty and inequalities. The ideology of “growthism” should not become a distraction from the urgent need both to provide more of the goods and services that enhance well-being and bto reduce the production of what is unnecessary or even toxic. As long as the economy is driven mainly by profit maximisation, it will respond to the demand expressed by the richest groups of society, leading to extractive forms of production that worsen social exclusion in the name of creating more wealth, and it will fail to fulfill the rights of those in poverty. Moving from an economy driven by the search for maximising profits to a human rights economy is possible and, to remain within planetary boundaries, necessary. In the present report, the Special Rapporteur explains why this shift is needed and what it could look like. Growth And Conventional Wisdom Writing in The #Guardian, De Schutter puts his report in plain language. He says conventional wisdom is that economic growth will bring prosperity to all. This mantra has guided the decision making of the vast majority of politicians, economists, and even human rights bodies for generations. Yet the reality is that while poverty eradication has historically been promised through the “trickling down” or “redistribution” of wealth, economic growth largely “gushes up” to a privileged few. 🔻🔻🔻 Click/tap image below to see video on YouTube 🔻🔻🔻

Replying to UN Special Rapporteur on poverty and human rights - #OlivierDeSchutter @srpoverty GDP📈 🆚 🪜transition 👇 necessary but insufficient Interesting🧵 & approach by @srpoverty @DeSchutterO @WBG_Poverty , imho, albeit too good to be feasible in the real world, right now. Such noble ideas practically contrast with current 🌐l economical & geopolitical feasibility. .. Apart the G2🤺☢️ super✊️s (rest of G20 are mere obidient vassals), the prerequisites haven't changed for incumbent govts, #African warlords & #LordsOfPoverty 📕 to end the 🌐 #poverty. Leave alone by 2030 in line with off-track #SDGs, climate change & conflicts worsening. 🤔 ... UN Special Rapporteur on poverty and human rights - @srpoverty " The widely held belief that increasing economic growth will solve global #poverty is wrong and leading the world down a dangerous path. Report presented @UN_HRC #HRC56: undocs.org/A/HRC/56/61 Press release: ohchr.org/en/press-relea… A thread summarising the report below... .. For decades we have been following the same, tired recipe: grow the economy first, then use the wealth to combat #poverty. This is not only misguided, it is dangerous. In the name of #GDP we are pushing our planet and its people to the brink. /2 .. The economies of rich countries have grown far beyond what is necessary; they have become obese. Yet #poverty remains entrenched and inequality is spiraling out of control. Unchecked economic growth is propelling the planet towards climate collapse. /3 .. In the Global South, where growth can still serve a useful role, wealth creation relies heavily on exploiting a cheap workforce and extracting natural resources, often to produce goods for the Global North and to pay back foreign debt. /4 .. My report calls for an urgent rethink in the fight against #poverty: for debt restructuring and forgiveness, for the financing of universal public services through progressive taxation on inheritance, wealth and carbon, for stronger international cooperation on #TaxEvasion. /5 .. It calls on governments to reject GDP as an indicator of progress, to guarantee government-backed jobs, to renumerate unpaid domestic and care work, to set minimum wages, to cap wealth generated from destructive industries. /6 .. There is a rapidly growing movement aligned to this vision, which I have had the privilege to join while drafting this report – all convinced of the need to urgently move #BeyondGrowth. It is time that governments took notice and put the 20th century behind them. 7/7 " ... https://lnkd.in/eVgj3Gns

On July 1st, we stand in solidarity with Indigenous communities. Canada's history is stained with the trauma of residential schools and ongoing systemic injustices. True progress means confronting our past and actively working towards reconciliation. This July 1st, let's commit to building a healthcare system that serves everyone equitably. #EveryChildMatters #ReconciliationInAction #IndigenousHealth #HarmReduction #CanadaDay #Decolonization #HarmReductionWorks