As the votes in European Elections 2019 were being counted and first results announced on Sunday night, we could see a video of self-advocates talking about voting being played in front of the European Parliament in Brussels. And it became clear to me: These were elections like never before.
Our director Milan Šveřepa: "I spent 2 days in Croatia last week learning about the situation of children and of adults with intellectual disabilities being segregated in institutions."
To show the importance of having the right to decide about one's own life, we made reports on various aspects of legal capacity. These aspects are aligned with our 5E's campaigns for full rights and inclusion strategy 2018-2022.
This paper aims at providing Inclusion Europe’s members and other interested stakeholders with an overview of the current understanding of “safeguards”, its potential content and measures for consideration and standards for those safeguards.