Humanitarian
London News
London shop sells Christmas gifts for refugees
Choose Love shop in London allows customers to give practical help to refugees.
London has opened the world's first pop-up shop where customers can buy gifts to be distributed to refugees in Europe a...
Copenhagen News
Danish asylum centres closing
The Danish immigration service has announced that it will soon be closing three of its asylum centres in Rødby, Skive and Frederikshavn.
The reason given is that asylum applications are bein...
Copenhagen News
Copenhagen makes space for homeless in Assistens Kirkegard cemetery
Copenhagen's homeless will now find their final resting place not far from such historic greats as Hans Christian Andersen and Soren Kierkegaard. The city has dedicated a burial plot to the city's hom...
Brussels News
Brussels organises against homophobia
To mark the international day against homophobia day on 17 May Brussels has organised a conference and demonstration to campaign against homo-, lesbo-, bio- and trans-phobia. The demonstration in Bru...
Madrid News
Spain registers more emigrants than immigrants for first time
More people are now emigrating from Spain than those coming to the country to live according to the country
Oxford News
Help centre for the homeless evicted from Oxford council property
A key city-centre hostel for Oxford
Copenhagen News
New United Nations site for Copenhagen
Construction has begun on a site for a 28,000 sqm complex of offices for the United Nations (UN) offices in Copenhagen. Work is expected to be finished by 2012, reports the Copenhagen Post.
The ne...
Dublin News
Increase in number sleeping rough in Dublin
The annual count of homeless people by some 100 surveyors from Dublin's Homeless Agency found 70 people sleeping rough on the streets of the capital. Conducted on a single night in November between 01...
Copenhagen News
Copenhagen gets anti-discrimation hotline
Copenhagen city council has set up a hotline to provide legal advice on race, gender, disability and sexual discrimination, says the Copenhagen Post.
A recent study by the council showed that 60,0...
Brussels News
End of Brussels winter plan puts families back on streets
Experts estimate that hundreds of people, including families with children, will once again face sleeping on the streets as the official winter emergency housing plan ends in Brussels.
The plan, w...
Oxford News
Street pastors for Oxford
Oxford city centre is to see church-sponsored late night patrols of street pastors, under a scheme set up by the Ascension Trust.
Street pastors, who aim to help the vulnerable on the streets, wer...
Dublin News
Dublin Homeless Falls
An annual report has revealed that the amount of homeless people sleeping on Dublin streets has decreased. It found 60 people sleeping outdoors: 51 men, 6 women and 3 people of an indeterminable gende...
Brussels News
Social housing stands empty
Brussels-based organisation Inter-Environnement Bruxelles has launched a campaign to raise public awareness of the amount of social housing in the city that remains unoccupied, despite the current sta...
Dublin News
Irish homeless increase
Dublin-based charity, Trust, has reported that Irish homeless people now outnumber non-Irish homeless people presenting every morning for hot showers and medical services. This change in ratio is in s...
Paris News
Paris fights discrimation
Paris is the latest city to join the current anti-discrimination campaign launched by the Council of Europe, whose aim among its 47 member states is to protect human rights and promote racial harmony....
Brussels News
Brussels top city for NGOs.
The European capital attracts more international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) than any other city in the world according to a study just published by FAIB (Federation of European and Internat...
Dublin News
Hostel for young homeless closed.
Social workers say Dublin's homeless children and teenagers are at risk since this week's closure of two emergency care hostels in the north inner city. The hostels provided beds for homeless children...
Paris News
Temporary shelters for Paris homeless.
Paris city council has opened extra temporary shelters for the homeless in gymnasiums in the 17e and 14e arrondissements in view of the current extreme winter weather conditions. The local council in...
