Public welfare
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3 Giugno Giu 2008 0200 03 giugno 2008 Macedonia: Elections marred by violence
MOST, a local NGO, has reported a number of grave violations of proper electoral procedures following the 2008 Parliamentary elections held in Macedonia on Sunday June 1st
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27 Maggio Mag 2008 0200 27 maggio 2008 UK: World state of human rights a failure, says AI
Amnesty International's report 2008: State of the World's Human Rights, published today, shows that 60 years of human rights have failed. The NGO challenged governments to apologise
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26 Maggio Mag 2008 0200 26 maggio 2008 UK: Personal budget holder: towards an open market for social welfare
Peter Kyle, vice director of the UK's association of third sector leaders Acevo, has no doubts: opening up the welfare market to charities and competition is the future, and, for some, the present ..
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26 Maggio Mag 2008 0200 26 maggio 2008 Denmark: First private hospital opens its doors
An emergency room where you can pay your way to the front of the queue is being strongly criticised by doctors as the first step to inequality in national health care
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25 Maggio Mag 2008 0200 25 maggio 2008 Poland: Cooperation on autism builds on French best practices
A Polish delegation of policy makers and NGOs in France to build best practices in the field of autism. The goal? To create a national assistance system modelled on the French experience
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19 Maggio Mag 2008 0200 19 maggio 2008 Turkey: Convention of the disappeared met with silence
71 countries have signed the Convention of the Disappeared, an important step for human rights. But the US, the UK and Turkey have not and only Albania has agreed to ratify it
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14 Maggio Mag 2008 0200 14 maggio 2008 Spain: Migration's contribution to development
Money sent by migrants in rich countries more than doubled national aid for development figures in 2007,demonstrating the economic importance of immigration
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9 Maggio Mag 2008 0200 09 maggio 2008 Italy: Civil society gather in Padova for the thirteenth edition of Civitas fair
Civitas organisers have choosen three main topics on which debate and share best practices: the right to employment, to a healthy environment and to peace
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6 Maggio Mag 2008 0200 06 maggio 2008 UK: Online helpline promotes right to employment
39% of people claiming incapacity benefit do so because of mental ill health and yet 80% businesses have no adequate mental health policy. An online advice helpline aims to fill the gap
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4 Maggio Mag 2008 0200 04 maggio 2008 UN: Landmark treaty on rights of persons enters into force
The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has entered into force, guaranteeing the rights to education, health, work and many more, of some 650 million people worldwide