Yesterday, the European Parliament declared its support for the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN CRPD) by adopting a resolution on realizing its full implementation.
Inclusion Europe and Anffas welcomed more than 350 participants to the Europe in Action Conference, a yearly event that has become a tradition for many people with intellectual disabilities, their families, carers and representative organisations.
An English punk band called ‘Heavy Load’ has created a campaign to fight for the right of people with disabilities to stay up until late at night, CNN reported.
In Great Britain, the concept of Shared Lives has become increasingly popular. Shared Lives is a form of support and accommodation for adults with special needs in which qualified individuals and families open their homes to assist people with disabilities.
The #ToyLikeMe Facebook campaign is an initiative by parents who want to address the lack of diverse toys to which children with disabilities can also relate. The initiators felt that toys, dolls in specific, do not reflect the entire society and that people with disabilities are not acknowledged.
In the wake of the British general elections, the five biggest political parties in the UK have published accessible versions of their main standpoints. They have been created with the assistance of Mencap, to make people with intellectual disabilities aware of what political choices there are and to include them within the election process.
Inclusion Europe member Insieme Switzerland officially kicked off a new PR-campaign, proving that perceptions about people with intellectual disailities can change in as little as five minutes. The PR-campaign was the result of a social experiment undertaken by the Swiss organisation.
The United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is currently in the process of examining the measures taken by the European institutions to ensure that the rights of people with disabilities are considered in all relevant legislative proposals, as well as in all EU policy processes.
UNAPEI has recently spoken out against a new amendment to the French health bill that could have threatened the rights of people with disabilities. The draft article aimed at establishing a system of permanent referral of people with disabilities that would not have respected their rights.
