Legal capacity

Inclusion Europe's director Milan Šveřepa writes about ECHR decision denying right to vote.

In the context of our 2020 campaign about Inclusive Education, Inclusion Europe published a paper on Inclusive Education and Legal Capacity, highlighting the importance of Inclusive Education for the integration of people with disabilities and their legal capacity.

In the context of our campaign for last year, we published a final document on the topic of legal capacity and citizenship, presenting an overview of what a lack of legal capacity means for people with intellectual disabilities across the European Union.

To end our focus on elections and the right to vote, we published a document about the situation of legal capacity in Europe.

How can co-production help improve political participation of people with disabilities? This was the question an event co-organised by Inclusion Europe addressed.

Inclusion Europe organised an event at the European Parliament together with 5 other NGOs. People from different organisations and some MEPs took part in the event.

We just have published Europe for Us! Europe for Us is our easy-to-read newsletter for self-advocates. This time, we talk a lot about the European elections.

The Parliament Magazine published an article on the new Spanish law that allows people with intellectual disabilities to vote.

Inclusion Europe went to Barcelona for a meeting of the Human Rights working group at the offices of our member Som Fundació.  This meeting was a great opportunity to update members about our work, but also to learn their news.  

French people under guardianship now have the right to vote.