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Author: Mary Daly
Publisher: Council of Europe
ISBN: 9789287149848
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 126

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The views of rights holders

Author: Matti Heikkilä
Publisher: Council of Europe
ISBN: 9789287149374
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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This volume explores the nature and scope of the problem of poverty, examines the political responses to poverty (examples of different countries); and investigates the existence and use of various definitions and thresholds applied to poverty in policy making . It also examines the variations within income transfers, i.e. social benefits designed to prevent or alleviate poverty and material hardship and explores the effectiveness of benefit schemes in reducing poverty.--Publisher's description.

Author: Paul Soto Hardiman
Publisher: Council of Europe
ISBN: 9789287153890
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 420

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This publication examines the issue of social cohesion as it relates to young people living in urban environments. There are two major reports on violence and social exclusion: the first looks at these issues in a European context, taking account of the extent and causes of urban deprivation, and how this links to youth violence. The second report concentrates on the UK, and on the social transition from a welfare state to a stakeholder/welfare society. Both reports look at issues of crime prevention, youth employment, projects for training initiatives, and urban design processes. Both reports find examples of good practice, and recommends methods to regenerate social cohesion.

Author: Edgar, Bill
Publisher: Policy Press
ISBN: 1861346476
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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Includes statistics.

Author: Jordi Estivill
Publisher: International Labour Organization
ISBN: 9789221136521
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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Millions of human beings the world over survive in conditions of poverty and social exclusion, and this is unlikely to change in the years to come. This grave situation affects the whole of humanity, which cannot and must not shut its eyes to it. Social exclusion is spreading so much that it is becoming one of the keys to understanding the economic and social situation of the world today. This book attempts to deciper the concept of social exclusion. It aims to identify, analyse and measure exclusion and make it more visible. It also aims to provide a detailed overview of those involved and their initiatives.

Author: Fabio Giomi
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 100059243X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 245

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Since the 1980s, neoliberals have openly contested the idea that the state should protect the socio-economic well-being of its citizens, making ‘privatization’ their mantra. Yet, as historians and social scientists have shown, welfare has always been a ‘mixed economy’, wherein private and public actors dynamically interacted, collaborating or competing with each other in the provision of welfare services. This book will be of interest to students, scholars and practitioners of welfare by developing three innovative approaches. Firstly, it illuminates the productive nature of public/private entanglements. Far from amounting to a zero-sum game, the interactions between the two sectors have changed over time what welfare encompasses, its contents and targets, often engendering the creation of new fields of intervention. Secondly, this book departs from a well-established tradition of comparison between Western nation-states by using and mixing various scales of analysis (local, national, international and global) and by covering case studies from Spain to Poland and France to Greece in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Thirdly, this book goes beyond state centrism in welfare studies by bringing back a host of public and private actors, from municipalities to international organizations, from older charities to modern NGOs. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Author: Francis Rosensteil
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
ISBN: 9789041118448
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1154

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The year 2000's most significant international event was, almost certainly, neither political nor military, but scientific - the announcement, in June, that the human genome had been almost totally decoded. Future generations may well see this as a major turning point, opening the way to radical changes in diagnosis, prognosis, and medical treatment. Often compared with the space programme, this vast enterprise still generates misgivings: this new power, which human beings now have, to modify the genetic heritage of living creatures raises fundamentally new ethical questions - and society as a whole will have to find the answers. In fact, the accelerating pace of scientific and technical progress seems to be reviving atavistic anxieties, some rational, others less so. Recent public-health crises, including the mad cow disease' scare, which lasted into 2000, have fuelled these fears. The public's rejection of GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms) - verging on a crusade in some countries - tells its own story. As regards conflict, 2000 saw the Middle East peace process grind to a halt, and the Intifada resume. In Europe, the situation in Kosovo and Chechnya, both the scenes of fighting in 1999, stayed precarious. Peace and democracy did score some successes, however, particularly in Europe: the centre-left's victory in Croatia, sweeping former President Tudjman's party off the scene, the democratic party's triumph in Bosnia, and the fall of the Milosevic regime in Serbia.

Author: Council of Europe
Publisher: Council of Europe
ISBN: 9789287154910
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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Dans la recherche de cohésion sociale, les auteurs préconisent l'action à long terme recherchant la synergie entre acteurs locaux, population et institutions afin d'encourager la responsabilité mutuelle et les valeurs de solidarité.

Author: Harald Hartung
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 075671320X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 245

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The 52nd Eurobarometer report sheds light on the state of public opinion towards the European Union (EU) in the Autumn of 1999. The results are more positive than those from the Spring 1999 survey, suggesting that the institutional crisis caused by the resignation of the Santer Commission has not had a long lasting impact on public opinion & that recent developments have helped to lift public faith in the EU. Chapters: Europeans in the year 2000; information about & knowledge of the EU; public opinion towards the EU at the turn of the year 2000; the single currency, the Euro; the European Parliament; & Europeans & languages. Charts, tables, graphs, & technical specifications.

Author: Réseau européen des associations de lutte contre la pauvreté et l'exclusion
Publisher:
ISBN: 9782841463039
Category : European Union countries
Languages : fr
Pages : 353

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Que sait-on de l'action de l'Union européenne en matière de lutte contre la pauvreté et l'exclusion ? Que sait-on des politiques de nos voisins dans ce domaine de leur système de protection sociale, des moyens qu'ils mettent en œuvre pour lutter contre l'exclusion ? Peu de choses en réalité. Pour la première fois, sous l'égide de EAPN, réseau européen des associations de lutte contre la pauvreté et l'exclusion sociale, une équipe de spécialistes de l'Uniopss a mené une enquête approfondie sur ces questions auprès des instances européennes et dans chaque pays de l'Union. Cet ouvrage est destiné à tous ceux qui entendent conjuguer construction européenne et lutte contre la pauvreté : - il guidera ceux qui - associations, fondations, institutions sociales - recherchent des financements ou des partenariats européens pour amplifier leur action. - il apportera à qui traite de ces questions - concepteur ou observateur de l'intervention sociale, responsable politique, économique, fonctionnaire ou journaliste - des informations jusqu'à présent difficilement accessibles. L'information est organisée en deux parties : - une présentation pratique de la politique sociale de la Commission européenne - et de ses programmes en matière de lutte contre la pauvreté et l'exclusion : un point sur les réseaux européens existants dans ce domaine ; - une description synthétique des systèmes de protection sociale et des dispositifs de lutte contre l'exclusion dans chacun des quinze pays membres. Ce livre, complété par des adresses, une bibliographie, est une référence pour une meilleure connaissance et appréhension de l'Europe sociale.