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9 September Sep 2016 1341 09 September 2016 Time for the EU Investment Plan to do more for social services
Takeaways from the EASPD seminar "Implementation of the European Fund for Strategic Investment: unlocking investment for social services". Participants discussed how to ensure that The European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) can contribute significantly to social inclusion in Europe, in particular through investment in high-quality social services.
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9 September Sep 2016 0955 09 September 2016 Paralympics: Sports as a tool for empowerment
It strengthens one's self-esteem as well as one's body and promotes understanding – sports for and with persons with disabilities. That's why sports is so important for LIGHT FOR THE WORLD!
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8 September Sep 2016 1156 08 September 2016 Oxfam:«Each day 28 unaccompanied children fall out of Italy’s weak reception system»
With latest UNICEF figures showing ever more children globally are uprooted, the number of unaccompanied refugee and migrant children arriving to Europe through Italy has doubled this year and Europe is failing to properly support them, a new Oxfam report reveals.
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8 September Sep 2016 1100 08 September 2016 The truth about the Syrian refugee crisis
Screened at the Venice film festival 2016, ‘The War Show’ is a documentary on the Syrian conflict told from the point of view of a former radio DJ Obaidah Zytoon and her friends
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8 September Sep 2016 1030 08 September 2016 “We’ll tackle poverty and Italy’s slot machine plague”
In an interview with ‘Vita’, the leading Italian non-profit magazine coming out on 9 September, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi announced new measures to tackle poverty and take slot machines out of commercial businesses
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7 September Sep 2016 1141 07 September 2016 Counting the economic disaster of the earthquake
According to Lorenzo Codogno, visiting professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science, European Institute, the costs of the earthquake in Italy will be around €5bn, i.e. 0.3% of GDP. However, the economic cost of natural disasters anywhere is hard to calculate
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7 September Sep 2016 1126 07 September 2016 50% of world's refugees are children
A new Unicef report published on Wednesday found that nearly 50 million children have been uprooted worldwide and 28 million have been forcibly displaced by conflict and violence within and across borders. They are the most likely to be exposed to violence, sexual abuse and human trafficking
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5 September Sep 2016 1611 05 September 2016 G20: the expectations of the non-profit sector
From Greenpeace to Doctors without Borders, here is what the non profit sector expects from the G20 taking place in Hangzhou
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5 September Sep 2016 1100 05 September 2016 France awards social innovation
"La France s'engage", an initiative by French President François Hollande promoting and supporting the most promising social innovations in the country, is creating a real movement for social enterprise in France. Winners of the fifth edition of the initiative, that will finish in 2017, were announced at the Élysée Palace in Paris on the 31st of August.