Not good enough. Three words to summarize the track record of the European Union (EU) in upholding the rights of people with disabilities, as made clear by the United Nations (UN) this week.
September 8th was the International Literacy Day, marking the importance of this basic human right around the world. Inclusion Europe would like to encourage governments, international organizations, NGOs, communities, experts, actors of the civil society and the private sector celebrating this important date to include the needs of people with intellectual disabilities in the promotion of literacy.
As Europeans, we apologise on behalf of our national and European leaders for their inexcusable lack of coordinated humanitarian aid to the situation you and thousands of others are in while crossing our borders to escape war, persecution and poverty.
Not good enough. Three words to summarize the track record of the European Union (EU) in upholding the rights of people with disabilities, as made clear by the United Nations (UN) this week.
European Network on Independent Living (ENIL) is denouncing the “re-institutionalization” happening in Bulgaria. The Bulgarian government has announced modifications in the laws regulating the placement of children and adults with disabilities in “Family-type Residential Centers”.
Legal capacity and the violations of the rights of people with intellectual disabilities topped the agenda of the Constructive Dialogue led by the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) on 27-28 August in Geneva.
