On 24th March 2021, the European Commission published the European Child Guarantee, framed in the new EU Child Rights Strategy. The proposal is a milestone which should be used as a catalyst triggering a rethink of national family supports in…
Brussels, 15th March 2021 Today is World Consumer Rights Day! And it is also just about the yearly anniversary of the day when our usual consumption brutally came to a halt as shops all around Europe were forced to close…
Gender equality in care and pay in Europe has always been a slow-paced struggle. However, faced with an unprecedented challenge such as the Covid-19 pandemic, unequal structures have even more intensified where women are once again those carrying the greatest…
Brussels, 9 February 2021, MEDIA RELEASE #SaferInternetDay On the 2021 edition of Safer Internet Day, COFACE Families Europe marks that not every child in Europe has the chance to fully experience a Safer Internet, or any Internet for that matter,…
Brussels, 20 November 2020, MEDIA RELEASE #WorldChildrensDay #ChildCompass2030 #ForEveryChild On this Universal Children’s Day COFACE Families Europe is releasing its “Child Compass 2030: For a Europe which invests in shaping a healthy society, environment and economy fit for children” bringing…
Brussels, 14th September 2020, MEDIA RELEASE #BeTheSHIFT #Jaipasecole DOWNLOAD RECOMMENDATIONS In Europe too many children with disabilities are excluded from participating in mainstream education. Now is the time to make a cultural, political and practical transformation of the education systems…
Brussels, 16th June 2020, MEDIA RELEASE #ToysAndDiversity #ToyStories DOWNLOAD FULL REPORT In 2019, COFACE Families Europe decided to collect the stories of families and beyond in Europe, to explore what determines and influences their choices when they buy toys. On…
Brussels, 15th April 2020, MEDIA RELEASE #COVID19 #AndraTuttoBene #StayHome DOWNLOAD POSITION PAPER Lockdowns, school closure and teleworking have pushed society into a new reality in the family, working and social spheres of life, with clear consequences on work-life balance and…
Brussels, 6th March 2020, MEDIA RELEASE for International Women’s Day 2020 #GenerationEquality #IWD2020 Fifteen times more. According to the International Labour Organisation (ILO), across the world, 606 million working-age women (20%) perform unpaid care work on a full-time basis, compared…
MEDIA RELEASE Brussels, 16 January 2020 #BeTheSHIFT towards full inclusion by 2030 COFACE Families Europe and partners celebrate 10 years of coordinated EU action on deinstitutionalisation with the “Towards Inclusion” conference hosted by the European Commission today in Brussels. The…
Brussels, 20th December 2019, MEDIA RELEASE We are disappointed that the European Parliament has not considered our joint proposal for a pluralistic intergroup on ‘Demographic Change and Solidarity between Generations’. Our proposal gathered support from around 50 Members of European…
Brussels, 3rd December 2019, MEDIA RELEASE for International Day of Persons with Disabilities According to the Academic Network of European Disability Experts, institutional care continues to consume disproportionate levels of public expenditure, far outweighing that invested in community-based alternatives. There…
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