SOLIDAR network at Sabir Festival 2022: changing the narrative for more inclusive migration policies
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SOLIDAR network at Sabir Festival 2022: changing the narrative for more inclusive migration policies

The 8th edition of Sabir Festival took place from 12th to 14th May 2022 in Matera, Italy. Sabir, the festival of Mediterranean cultures, is co-organised yearly by SOLIDAR members ARCI and CGIL, along with Italian organisations ACLI, Caritas Italiana, ASGI and Carta di Roma. The Festival strives to offer moments of sociability, debate and in-depth…

Time for EU Leaders to Choose a Just Energy Transition and a Stronger Social Europe
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Time for EU Leaders to Choose a Just Energy Transition and a Stronger Social Europe

May 30, 2022 SOLIDAR and FEPS call on leaders in Europe to put in place transformative action aimed at making our societies and economies peaceful, equitable and climate-neutral, starting with ensuring a rapid and just energy transition and building a stronger social Europe. We live in times of recurrent and mutually reinforcing global crises. The…

Coming up: Civil Society Forum for Sustainability – Shaping the European Green Deal
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Coming up: Civil Society Forum for Sustainability – Shaping the European Green Deal

May 11, 2022 On 9 and 10 June 2022, Civil Society Organisations with an interest in sustainability, a socially Just Transition and climate and environmental action will gather in Brussels to conduct a mid-term review of the European Green Deal. In the framework of the Real Deal project funded by the EU programme Horizon 2020, SOLIDAR, the European Environmental…

a Just Transition in France and the role of grassroots movements
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a Just Transition in France and the role of grassroots movements

May 10, 2022 SOLIDAR and its members La Ligue de l’Enseignement and Ceméa celebrated Europe Day with a roundtable discussion on a Just Transition in France and the EU, and on the role played by grassroots movements in connecting social justice with climate action. The roundtable, which gathered over 30 participants and was held in French,…

“Choosing the Right Path at this Turning Point in History” – Joint letter by SOLIDAR, EEB, SDG Watch Europe and YFJ
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“Choosing the Right Path at this Turning Point in History” – Joint letter by SOLIDAR, EEB, SDG Watch Europe and YFJ

April 21, 2022 The EEB, SDG Watch Europe, the European Youth Forum and SOLIDAR, with the support of 65+ other civil society organisations, call for solidarity and a strong commitment to the ecological and social transition for resilience, energy independence and peace. Russia’s war against Ukraine is a horrific act of aggression and a failure of diplomacy. It…

Small Grant Facility call for proposals 2022 is out!
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Small Grant Facility call for proposals 2022 is out!

(French and Spanish versions below – Versions française et espagnole ci-dessous – Versiones en español y francés debajo) DEADLINE TO SUBMIT PROPOSAL: 12 JUNE 2022, 24h00 Brussels time Organising International Solidarity – Small Grant Facility Call for Proposals 2022 SOLIDAR is launching a Call for Proposals as part of its Organising International Solidarity (OIS) programme, funded by the European…

Call for Nominations Silver Rose Awards 2022
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Call for Nominations Silver Rose Awards 2022

Every year, since the year 2000, SOLIDAR has organised its Silver Rose Awards in the European Parliament in cooperation with the S&D Group and the Party of European Socialists (PES), an occasion to celebrate Civil Society Organisations and individuals whose extraordinary struggles contribute greatly to social justice and solidarity throughout the world. This year, however, the war in Ukraine…

SOLIDAR STATEMENT: STOP THE WAR | SOLIDARITY WITH UKRAINE!
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SOLIDAR STATEMENT: STOP THE WAR | SOLIDARITY WITH UKRAINE!

Putin’s war is turning a month today. A horrifying and sad anniversary, defined by indiscriminate aggression towards civilian targets, hospitals, schools, entire cities under siege without access to water, food or medicine, and humanitarian corridors attacked. War is truly the darkest side of our civilisation, its devastating effects seen in the thousands of lives lost,…