Voting Rights

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

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To show the importance of having the right to decide about one's own life, we made reports on various aspects of legal capacity.

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

My Talents. For Diversity. is a European project about the inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities in the labour market and the benefits of diversity management.

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.

Last January, Inclusion Europe's Milan Šveřepa was interviewed by David Klimeš for the Czech news-server Aktuálně.cz. They talked about deinstitutionalisation, rights of people with intellectual disabilities and the use of EU funding to improve the social system in the country.

French member organisation is launching two great projects this month, focused on voting rights for people with intellectual disabilities.