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EU 2017 Draft Budget 1 July Jul 2016 1103 01 July 2016 How serious is the EU about fighting poverty?
The budget for 2017 proposes maintaining the same level of external spending that was planned when the seven-year budget cycle of the EU was agreed in 2013. A budget, as pointed out by One Campaign, that was clearly not designed to address the new challenges that the world is facing today.
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Refugees 30 June Jun 2016 1515 30 June 2016 The EU agenda behind the Migration Partnership Framework
Bob van Dillen, a migration and development expert, exposes the weaknesses of the European Commission's Migration Partnership Framework and questions its capacity to really serve the purpose of helping people in need.
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Best practices 24 June Jun 2016 1248 24 June 2016 City solutions for refugee housing
The cities of Münster, Germany, and Cleveland, USA, have been implementing innovative practices in refugee housing. A webinar on June 30, organised by Cities of Migration, will explore their best practices.
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Interview 23 June Jun 2016 1013 23 June 2016 Simon Maxwell: «Stopping migration through development is a myth»
«I do think that it is a myth to believe that if only there were more development in the countries that are sending migrants to Europe, then the migration would stop», says the former Director of the Overseas Development Institute (1997-2009), Simon Maxwell, in this interview released to Afronline during the European Development Days. «In the modern world, people move to seek a better life».
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Poverty Alleviation 22 June Jun 2016 0811 22 June 2016 Cash transfer programs might disrupt the system of humanitarian aid
According to studies, in many contexts cash is a better way to help people and stimulate markets, and represents value for money compared to in-kind alternatives.
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Crisis 20 June Jun 2016 0949 20 June 2016 The global number of refugees stands at 65.3 million
According to The UN annual report marking World Refugee Day, 1 in every 113 on earth is an asylum- seeker, internally displaced or a refugee.
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Migration 14 June Jun 2016 1505 14 June 2016 Turning away refugees is economically irresponsible
According to the former economic adviser to the president of the European Commission Philippe Legrain, welcoming refugees is not only a humanitarian and legal obligation; it is an investment that can yield significant economic dividends.
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Conflict resolution 10 June Jun 2016 1045 10 June 2016 Peace agreements with women last longer, so why aren't we included?
15 years after the UN security council passed resolution 1325, women are still largely excluded from the formal peace process. To highlight the political, social, peacebuilding, and conflict resolution work of women living in challenging environments across the Arab States Region, UN Women have started a six-part documentary series called “We Are Here”.
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Philantropy 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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Refugees 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.