Eurocarers, the European Association representing informal carers and their organizations, has just launched InformCare, the first European web platform for informal carers.
Institutions have to close in Moldova, has urged Catalina Devandas-Aguilar, the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on Disability, at the press conference concluding her 8-day official visit to the country.
The European Film Festival called “Integration You and Me” took place in Poland. This film festival presents films and documentaries about people with disabilities.
TArticle 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities (CRPD) refers to the legal capacity and equal recognition before the law of people with disabilities. Legal decisions and actions should be based on the choice and will of the person with disability rather than what someone else considers to be their best interest.
Viltis, Inclusion Europe member from Lithuania, coordinated the project “Young Adults with Intellectual Disability: a European Learning Partnership for a new approach to the family system” (YAID). They released a report on the outcomes of the research operated in the framework of the project in Croatia, Italy, Lithuania and Scotland.
Inclusion Europe member Mencap, in collaboration with the University College London, has published a report on attitudes towards people with intellectual disabilities in the United Kingdom.
