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Tuesday, September 17th, 2024

2:14 PM

Report: ‘What Would it Take to Eliminate Consistent Poverty by 2030?’

COMMUNITY PLATFORM CALLS ON ALL POLITICAL PARTIES TO COMMIT TO ELIMINATING POVERTY BY 2030 The Community Platform, an alliance of 31 national networks and organisations in the community and voluntary sector, has today called on all political parties to commit to the elimination of consistent poverty, as

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Tuesday, March 5th, 2024

4:40 PM

COMMUNITY PLATFORM RESPONSE TO UN COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC SOCIAL & CULTURAL RIGHTS CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS ON IRELAND

UN HIGHLIGHTS SERIOUS CONCERNS WITH IRELAND’S ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS RECORD The UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights findings on Ireland highlight key issues the State must address if it is serious about tackling poverty and social exclusion and protecting the economic, social and

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Thursday, February 8th, 2024

2:03 PM

Submission to UN CESCR Fourth Review of Ireland

The lived experience of poverty, social exclusion and inequality must inform the Government’s approach to economic, social and cultural rights, an alliance of leading organisations in the Irish community and voluntary sector said today (08.02.2024), as it launched its Submission to the UN Committee on Economic, Social

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Monday, October 9th, 2023

2:02 PM

Press Statement – Budget 2024

On the eve of Budget 2024 a network of 31 national community and voluntary organisations has called on the Government to urgently address the cumulative impact of the very high cost of living on people, while also addressing ongoing structural weaknesses that create the conditions that enable

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