ATD Fourth World’s comments on the European Platform against Poverty and Social Exclusion
Brussels, 15th February 2011
With European institutions
- Youth Appeal to Europe : “We have trouble understanding this world but we want to find our place in it”
- “Appeal to each person and to European officials”, at the Commemorative Stone in Honour of the Victims of Extreme Poverty on the Esplanade of the European Parliament: photos
- "Joining with young people to rid Europe of poverty and exclusion"
- The Fourth World European Committee
- The European Fourth World People’s Universities
- Cercle de pensée Joseph Wresinski
- European Fourth World Solidarity
In terms of the fight against poverty and social exclusion, the European Union has set the main goal of reducing the number of people living in poverty by 20 million by 2020. This goal worries the most deprived populations, because it amounts to abandoning millions of people in Europe. This goal is too simplistic and is not enough to mobilise society as a whole in a fight against poverty, based on the indivisibility, interdependence and effectiveness of human rights, and involving everyone. It is essential to ensure that the very poorest will be taken into account by the European Platform against Poverty and Social Exclusion.
Following the adoption of this Platform, ATD Fourth World asks that the concrete policies which are to be implemented be based on the following principles:
- Ensure that policies reach the very poorest
- Developing a Human Rights based approach to fighting extreme poverty
- Breaking the intergenerational poverty cycle
- Thinking and acting in partnership with the poorest
- Implementing the horizontal social clause
- Using social innovation and pilot projects
For more details, see ATD Fourth World’s comments on the European Platform against Poverty and Social Exclusion
Documents
- Propositions ATD Quart Monde sur la Plateforme contre la pauvreté 2_EN
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