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- How is the issue of child poverty addressed across Europe?
  14 September 2007
  Much is said about adult poverty, and yet in the European Union, it is children that are most at risk of poverty. According to Eurostat figures (2005), 20% of dependent under 16 in the EU were living in poverty, compared to 16% of adults. Poverty is not only a denial of children’s fundamental rights, it also mortgages the future wellbeing of European society. For example, numerous studies show that: (read more)
- Global Information Society Watch 2007 Report
  17 May 2007, by Christina Haralanova
  A new watchdog report monitoring promises made by governments and the United Nations to ensure that information technology is used to benefit millions of people, will be launched in Geneva on May 22. (read more)
- EU Finance Ministers Recommend More Effective Public Spending to Bulgaria
  29 March 2007
  The EU finance ministers recommended that Bulgaria seek a greater effectiveness of public spending, in particular through a reform in the health care system, Bulgarian Finance Minister Plamen Oresharski told a news conference here on Wednesday in connection with the Convergence Programme of Bulgaria on which the EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN) adopted an opinion in Brussels on March 27. (read more)
- What is the purpose of International Women’s Day?
  18 March 2007
  International Women’s Day (IWD) each year is an opportunity for global women to raise their voices, raise awareness of injustice, and to note the achievements that have passed and those that are yet to come. Yet some that have raised their voices on IWD 2007 have ceremoniously announced that Northern feminism is dead, and that IWD has been ’hijacked’ by spice workshops, yoga and capitalism. Author: Rochelle Jones, AWID (read more)
- Over 18% of adult roma population illiterate in Bulgaria
  15 March 2007
  More than 18 per cent of the Roma are illiterate and if the current trend continues half of the Roma will not be able to read or write in 15 years, experts claim. (read more)
- Bulgarians are the least happy and most negatively-minded of all citizens of the European Union
  27 February 2007
  Bulgarians are the least happy and most negatively-minded of all citizens of the European Union, according to a survey commissioned by the European Commission, whose results were made public earlier in February. In Bulgaria, the mood is that things got worse over the past five years and although things will not get better they will also not get worse. (read more)
- Highlighting the rights of defenders of economic, social and cultural rights
  16 February 2007
  A review of the report by the United Nations Special Representative for Human Rights Defenders submitted to the UN Human Rights Council. Author: Kathambi Kinoti, AWID (read more)
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How is the issue of child poverty addressed across Europe?

Global Information Society Watch 2007 Report

EU Finance Ministers Recommend More Effective Public Spending to Bulgaria

What is the purpose of International Women’s Day?

Over 18% of adult roma population illiterate in Bulgaria

Bulgarians are the least happy and most negatively-minded of all citizens of the European Union

Highlighting the rights of defenders of economic, social and cultural rights