With the British General Election coming up in May, political party leaders David Cameron, Nick Clegg and David Miliband have pledged to pay more attention to the voice and needs of the 1.4 million people with an intellectual disability in the UK.
After a dramatic incident in early February involving a mother killing her son who had intellectual disabilities in the city of Rouen, France, the French National Union of Parents of People with Intellectual Disabilities (Unapei) responded fiercely in an opinion piece blaming the lack of inclusion within French society.
United Nations (UN) human rights experts have urged all UN Member States to guarantee the rights of people with disabilities by including them within the new development framework, namely the post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
From 6 to 9 May 2015, the Palace of Fine Arts (BOZAR) in Brussels will be the scenery for the 6th Congress for people with special needs and extra talents, entitled “Creating Social Art.”
Robert Martin, a committed self-advocate from New Zeeland and former member of the Council of Inclusion International, has recently had his biography published.
To mark the 10th anniversary of the 2005 Act on Equal Rights and Opportunities for people with disabilities, the French Institute for Public Opinion, together with a group of organisations working for disabled persons, among which Inclusion Europe member Unapei, has released a report on the "limited progress" that the Act has brought about, and the problems people with disabilities still face in France.
