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9 June Jun 2016 1645 09 June 2016 Regenerating with beauty
Antonio Presti, Sicilian artist and arts patron, who has donated all his personal patrimony in the name of knowledge, carrying out artistic projects with social aims, speaks about his artistic and ethical path and about the fundamental role of public art in regenerating the territory during the festival of responsible tourism Itacà, this year in its eighth edition.
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9 June Jun 2016 1248 09 June 2016 UNESCO: Our cultural diversity is under attack, we need to protect our heritage for peace
With the increasing targeting and attacks on cultural heritage sites across the world, but especially the Middle East and Africa, UNESCO are holding a high-level conference called #unite4heritage in Brussels this 9-10 June with technical experts. The aim? To strengthen policy advocacy for better recognition of cultural diversity in strategies for reconstruction and peacebuilding.
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9 June Jun 2016 0840 09 June 2016 Innovation, the buzzword for the nonprofit players
The most impressive accounts of the 27th Annual General Assembly & Conference of the European Foundation Centre, highlighted by Fondazione CRT.
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8 June Jun 2016 1515 08 June 2016 European Commission must do more for Investment in Community Based Services
The European Expert Group on the Transition from Institutional to Community-Based Care (EEG) welcomes several recommendations promoting quality care and support and access to employment and inclusive education for disadvantaged groups. Nonetheless, the overall focus on austerity will be detrimental to the transition to community-based services in Europe, if no safeguards are made available for public investment in this area.
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8 June Jun 2016 1226 08 June 2016 Restrictive EU migration policies force desperate people to take deadly routes
While interior ministers meet tomorrow to discuss EU migration policies, people trying to reach the safety of Europe continue to die en route. Caritas Europa and Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) Europe calls on European leaders to alter its restrictive approach to migration. Policies focused on deterrence, including the agreement with Turkey, are not stopping people from trying to reach our countries. Instead, they prolong suffering and push people into the hands of smugglers and traffickers, who find even more dangerous entry routes.
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8 June Jun 2016 1147 08 June 2016 Time for EU to walk the talk on 2030 sustainable development agenda
SDG Watch Europe, an alliance of 70 organisations including the European Environmental Bureau (EEB), Plan International and the European Women’s Lobby (EWL), has today (6 June) written to European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker calling for him to adopt, as a matter of urgency, an overarching strategy to guide implementation of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda.
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7 June Jun 2016 1456 07 June 2016 Team refugees set to make history at the Olympics Games
The International Olympic Committee has announced the selection of 10 refugees who will compete this August in Rio de Janeiro, forming the first-ever Refugee Olympic Athletes.
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3 June Jun 2016 1150 03 June 2016 End male violence on the route from conflict to peace
Yesterday in Brussels the European Women's Lobby held an event for their collaborative project entitled: "#womensvoices: From conflict to peace? Women and girls’ voices on the move". The project "aims to raise awareness on the situation of women and girls fleeing conflict and travelling through Europe, looking especially at the protection risks they face in terms of male violence against women both on the ground and with regards to the asylum procedures and policies.”
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1 June Jun 2016 1133 01 June 2016 Love Hurts: Who is afraid of contemporary opera?
The world premiere of the contemporary opera “Love Hurts”, written by Italian composer Nicola Moro based on a libretto by Lisa Hilton, will be on stage in Milan on the 25th of June at Piccolo Teatro Studio Melato. Love Hurts is a project of the cultural association SoloCanto in cooperation with the Centre for Contemporary Opera of New York. The aim? Promote contemporary opera for young people from around the world, making Milan more and more international.
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31 May May 2016 1728 31 May 2016 Big changes are needed to achieve a sustainable economy
In the closing plenary session that wrapped up three days at the EFC Aga 2016 annual general assembly conference in Amsterdam, the show was stolen by those who advocate the notion that sustainability is no longer a choice.
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31 May May 2016 0907 31 May 2016 Dignity at sea level
A cemetery of 200 floating gravestones off the Aegean coast of Turkey pays tribute to the 4000 Syrians who died in the Mediterranean sea, and attempts to wash away the apathy of our collective conscience.
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30 May May 2016 1541 30 May 2016 What is Community Foundations' added value to the refugee crisis?
Over three days at the EFC annual general assembly, delegates spent time debating what can foundations do in their ability and resources to address the refugees crisis in in a humane and responsible way.
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27 May May 2016 1005 27 May 2016 The refugees crisis is at the top of the agenda as the EFC kicks off its annual conference
The ongoing refugees crisis is a challenge to our common humanity. How can governments, the private sector, civil society organisations and philanthropy response?
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25 May May 2016 1648 25 May 2016 Why women will save the planet
Friends of the Earth have just published a book combining environmentalism and feminism. Entitled 'Why Women Will Save the Planet', the collection of articles and interviews is "from some of the leading lights of the environmental and feminist movements demonstrates that achieving gender equality is vital if we are to protect the environment upon which we all depend."
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25 May May 2016 1421 25 May 2016 Chronicle of a predicted failure
The first World Humanitarian Summit has come to a close, with a list of non-binding core commitments produced. Concern Worldwide statistics prove that so far in 2016, 94% of donors have failed to commit their full pledges, and only $1.16 billion of the $6 billion pledged for the year has been produced. The question of the effectiveness of these summits and non-binding agreements is a pressing one.
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24 May May 2016 1425 24 May 2016 Business must end modern slavery
Contemporary bondage is often hidden in supply chains in numerous industries and sectors, however 71 per cent of companies believes that the complexity of supply chains makes it difficult to identify and address.
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23 May May 2016 1707 23 May 2016 The latest mise-en-scène in a sector of endless conferences
The day after the Cannes film festival awarded director Ken Loach, the first World Humanitarian Summit gears up with a new production of good intentions, pleas but also empty rhetoric. It is not fiction: it is another anti poverty glamorous mise-en-scène self-directed and starred by the most privileged people on earth recalling the solutions that were not implemented.
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23 May May 2016 1443 23 May 2016 Over 600 leaders from philanthropy, politics and business tackle global challenges
The 27th European Foundation Centre annual general assembly and conference ‘Imagining and Investing in our Future’ will take place in Amsterdam from 26-28 May.
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20 May May 2016 1401 20 May 2016 Turning prisoners into entrepreneurs would save £1.4 billion per annum
A report released by the Centre for Entrepreneurs (CFE) suggests that making an entrepreneurship programme available to all pre-release prisoners could save the government up to £1.4 billion annually, at the maximum cost of £82 million – providing a 17x return on investment.