Fundamental Rights

Overview of news, reports, policies relevant to people with intellectual disabilities and their families in Europe.

Overview of news, reports, policies relevant to people with intellectual disabilities and their families in Europe.

  The Academy of European Law (ERA) has an event to learn more about the Charter of Fundamental Rights. The Charter of Fundamental Rights is a document made by the European Union. It describes all the rights of being a human in Europe. It talks a lot about equality. This means the same rights for all. This seminar...

The first African Leaders Forum on Disability committed to take up the steps necessary to improve the access of people with disabilities to fundamental rights. The forum hosted by Joyce Banda, the President of Malawi, and Special Olympics on 10 February in Lilongwille, the capital of Malawi, established the African Leadership Alliance on Intellectual Disabilities with an aim to boost the rights of people with intellectual disabilities in African countries.

On 17 December 2013, the European Parliament adopted the 'Justice Programme' and the 'Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme' to be the major source of financial support in the field of justice, equality and fundamental rights.