International Roma Day 2010
Friday, April 9th, 2010 by Jason Bergen Posted in attitudes, migrants | No Comments »Yesterday was International Roma Day and the Second European Roma Summit went ahead in Spain. What has changed since I covered Roma Day one year ago? Unfortunately, for Europe’s most deprived and vulnerable group: not a lot. More needs to be ...
The invisible crisis: Can’t see or won’t see?
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010 by Sue Smith Posted in attitudes, equality, gender, livelihoods, migrants | 2 Comments »The economy continues to dominate voters’ concerns and politicians’ in trays. Recession has further blighted life for millions of people, already on low incomes for many years. Groups that suffered before the recession are now suffering more. This is often ...
Why Oxfam joined the Fair Work Coalition
Friday, March 26th, 2010 by Krisnah Poinasamy Posted in labourrights, livelihoods, migrants | 1 Comment »Get a job and you’re on the route out of poverty – that’s what the government will tell you. After all, ‘paid work is the route to independence, health and well-being for most people’. Surely if everyone had a job ...
How should the media portray poverty?
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010 by Will Horwitz Posted in Inequality, Welfare reform, attitudes, livelihoods, migrants, uk poverty | No Comments »Will Horwitz works on communications for East London Charity Community Links. He is also an alumnus of Oxfam's UK Poverty Programme. (Community Links are spending this week debating how the media portrays poverty). A couple of years ago a headline ...
Who Cares?
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 by Krisnah Poinasamy Posted in asylum Seekers, equality, gender, labourrights, migrants, refugees, uk poverty | 1 Comment »The UK has an ageing population – with the number of people over 80 set to double to eight per cent of the population by 2030. Unable to meet the ever-increasing demand for care workers through the British workforce, the ...
Racism in a velvet glove…
Thursday, September 10th, 2009 by Heather Ureche Posted in attitudes, migrants | 1 Comment »If there was a group of people linked only by their ethnographic commonalities, a group who were marginalised, faced discrimination every day of their lives, had poor health, little access to normal education in their home countries, lived considerably shorter ...
