Twenty European networks working with children and families announced the creation of the ‘EU Alliance for Investing in Children’.
The European Network of Independent Living (ENIL) in collaboration with the European Disability Forum (EDF) and the European Foundation Centre’s Consortium on Human Rights and Disability (EFC) launched a campaign to highlight the impact of disability cuts in the anticipation of the European Parliament elections of May 2014.
The registration for our annual ‘Europe in Action’ conference is now open. The event will take place on 15-17 May 2014 in Belfast in Northern Ireland under the theme ‘Growing up with an intellectual disability’ and it is organised in cooperation with Mencap.
On 24 February 2014, Udruga za Samozastupanje - the Croatian Association for Self Advocacy, GONG and Disability Ombudsman Office organized a roundtable meeting in the Croatian Parliament within the framework of an EU-funded project Human Rights Advocacy through Learning by Doing.
Quarterly report released by the Czech Ombudsman last month points at significant obstacles encountered by families when placing their child with a disability into regular schools
On 26 February, the European Parliament endorsed amendments to the proposal for a Directive on the accessibility of public sector bodies’ website put forward by the European Commission in December 2012.
The 2014 edition of the Zero Project Report focusing on accessibility was launched at the United Nations Office in Vienna on 27-28 February in the presence of some 470 participants from all over the world.
Inclusion International has launched a new project funded by the United Nations Democracy Fund.
It is positive to see the European Council calling for “stepping up efforts to reach the Europe 2020 targets”. This supports the request of employment and social affairs ministers during their EPSCO meeting last week to “strengthen their efforts to reduce poverty”.
On 14 March 2014, Inclusion Europe’s member organisations Unapei, the National federation of associations of parents, of persons with intellectual disabilities, and their friends and Nous Aussi, French association of persons with intellectual disabilities, are organising a Self- advocacy day.
