Grundrechtstag 2015 - Armut

[Fundamental Rights Day 2015 – Poverty]

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Theory / Discourse
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Graz
 

Thu 01/10, 9.30 – 18.00

Heimatsaal im Volkskundemuseum

Admission free

 

 

Fri 02/10, 9.00 – 13.00

Hörsaal 15.04 (Bauteil E) im ReSoWi-Zentrum der Universität Graz

Admission free

 

 

German language

 

With lectures by Jens S. Dangschat (AT), Franz Merli (AT) & Magdalena Pöschl (AT)
Discussions with Tanja Domej (CH), Jörg Flecker (AT), Oliver Frey (AT), Nora Melzer-Azodanloo (AT), Michaela Moser (AT), Lyane Sautner (AT), Herbert Schoibl (AT), Joachim Stern (AT) & Barbara Weichselbaum (AT)


Poverty is hereditary, it is female, it primarily affects older people and increasingly, working people. Poverty is expensive, it devours state budgets and undermines economic and social dynamics. It is not merely an individual fate that can be passed on to charity organisations, as crucial as their work may be. Article 34 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union states a basic right to social security and social assistance. Society and its state institutions are thus called upon to combat poverty.
The aim of this interdisciplinary symposium is not only to give an overview of the manifestations of poverty, but also to deal with aspects of this subject in terms of basic rights and democracy – so as to initiate a wider discussion and, above all, to draw attention to the overall responsibility of society in combating poverty.

A project by Fundamental Rights Section of the Association of Judges, Graz University – Faculty of Law & Bundesministerium für Justiz
In cooperation with steirischer herbst