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01 Feb 2011

OUR VOICE IN EUROPE: LEFT BEHIND AS VULNERABLE CHILDREN – ROAD MAP TO RACCOMENTATION ON CHILD POVERTY

On 2-3 September 2010, 370 experts, representatives of the 27 EU Mmber States, NGOs, universities and other actors involved in child protection and well-being in Europe have gathered to provide inputs and discuss the drafted text of the Recommendation on Child Poverty that the European Commission is preparing. L'Albero della Vita participated to this Conference and raised the issue of Left Behind as a particular vulnerable group, which was accepted by the working group and included in...

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01 Feb 2011

EUROPEAN COMMISSION’S CONSULTATION ON CHILDREN’S RIGHTS: OUR RESPONSE ON LEFT BEHIND

On August 2010, the European Commission, DG JUST launched a public consultation for the next European Commission’s Communication on the Right of the Child (2011-2014). Consultation are an instruments that the Commission uses to gather information and ideas, practices etc from citizens and organisations in the 27 Member States. Inputs from the consultation will serve to draft the Communication that will be the base for the strategy for the right of the child from 2011 to 2014. L'Albero dell...

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01 Feb 2011

Awareness raising in Europe: meeting with italian MEPs in the European Parliament (July 2010)

On 6 July 2010, the Publication “Left Behind” released by L'Albero della Vita on the phenomenon of children left in Romania when parents migrate to Italy and Spain has been presented in the European Parliament in Strasbourg. Promoted by MEP Toia, MEP Sassoli and Vice-President MEP Angelilli, the meeting saw a good participation of Italian MEPs and the issue of left behind, its causes and consequences, as well as L'Albero della Vita’s intervention in Romania were presented and debated with ...

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