END GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE!
The UN Secretary General launched the UNiTE campaign, managed by UN WOMEN, to prevent and eliminate violence against women and girls around the world. REVES welcomes and joins this overarching effort, and supports the Six Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence . Hereafter an article by Carola Carazzone, Secretary General of REVES’ member ASSIFERO, providing insigths and perspectices on the…
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An alternative approach to skills, employability and job creation: Women and territories at the centre
Webinar, 12 November 2020, 10-12 am Nothing brought them to light more clearly than the pandemic: The essential needs of territories, on one hand (social services, mutual help, access to medical equipment, food…), but also the enormous – and often untapped – potential and capacities cities, regions and their inhabitants are able to mobilise in…
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International alliance supporting position paper on digital transition/platform cooperatives
Digital transition is at the centre of proposals linked to the EU Recovery Plan, Cohesion Policy and other policies. But do we know which direction this transition should follow? A European alliance of commons activists, social economy networks and academics (La Coop des Communs – France ; Smart – Belgium ; Internet Interdisciplinary Institute of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya –…
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Covid-19: EU measures/Potential support and obstacles for the social and solidarity economy
In the current Covid-19 context, the European Commission has tabled a number of proposals to adapt EU legislation in order to rapidly make (financial) support and assistance available to all Member States. In this context, the European Commission decided, for instance, to loosen state aid rules and set up a State Aid Temporary Framework. The Coronavirus Response…
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Children’s Rights: Covid-19 does not stop us. Together with kids and families even now. On line
While the home visits, which together with other community meetings (parishes, kindergartens, and in our centre the Pomegranate “Times for families”) have led us to reach about 150 families throughout the city, are temporarily suspended due to the Coronavirus emergency, the activities of cognitive and educational support to children and their families are continuing. From…
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TOWARDS A EUROPEAN ACTION PLAN IMPLEMENTING THE EUROPEAN PILLAR OF SOCIAL RIGHTS: WORK-LIFE BALANCE: MASTER PARENTING IN WORK AND LIFE
Despite a number of recent (policy) initiatives at European level and in EU Member States, parents – and in particular mothers – still face a number of difficulties in combining (access to) work and family life. Moreover, the general employment rate of women is still considerably lower than that of men (by 11,6% in 2018). …
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