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Join us at the Strasbourg Freedom Drive!

Join us at the Strasbourg Freedom Drive!

Join us for the Strasbourg Freedom Drive this September! This year in Strasbourg we will be celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the Strasbourg Freedom Drive and we aim to make this year’s Freedom Drive the … Read more

Strasbourg Freedom Drive: Irish Follow up

Strasbourg Freedom Drive: Irish Follow up

The European Network on Independent Living (ENIL) held its fifth Freedom Drive in Strasbourg between 12th and 15th September 2011. The majority of the Freedom Drive participants were Independent Living activists, many of whom are … Read more

Strasbourg Freedom Drive 2013 Presentation

Strasbourg Freedom Drive 2013 Presentation

A year to the next Freedom Drive and its ten-year celebration, time flies! We are beginning to plan for next year and invite everyone to take a look at what we have planned to celebrate!. … Read more

DPAC: Letter warns Government that Scrapping ILF would ‘wreck lives’

DPAC: Letter warns Government that Scrapping ILF would ‘wreck lives’

Campaigners have handed the government a letter signed by hundreds of user-led organisations and disabled activists, in an effort to save the Independent Living Fund (ILF). The letter, written by the campaign group Disabled People … Read more

ENIL Proposal for a new Resolution of the European Parliament UPDATED! (29th March)

On the occasion of 2011 Freedom Drive, ENIL launched a Proposal for a Resolution of the European Parliament on the effect of cuts in public spending on persons with disabilities in the European Union. This … Read more

Independent Living Fund (ILF) in the UK: DPAC Signature campaign

To add your signature please email mail@dpac.uk.net, or meri.goodman@hotmail.co.uk    ‘DPAC Independent Living Fund letter Thousands of disabled people rely on funding from the Independent Living Fund to enable them to live independently with choice … Read more

Institutions and personal assistance in northern Europe

By Josefin Sterner, intern at the JAG Association  A charting of the existence of institutions and personal assistance in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Denmark, Norway, Iceland and Finland shows that though the UN Convention on the … Read more

Valencia conference on Independent Living and Human Rights

Jamie Bolling – Executive Director of ENIL visited the Secretariat in October. The main event was a conference on Independent Living and Human Rights organized by Carmen Najera– the Spanish Coordinator. Jamie spoke on the … Read more

Irish Freedom Drive Follow Up

The Irish Freedom Drivers are continuing to put pressure on the Irish Government to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities and have met with the Minister of State with responsibility … Read more

Back to Italy after the Freedom Drive

On 15 September, the fifth edition of the Freedom Drive was held in Strasbourg. The Freedom Drive is a march for freedom organised every two years by ENIL, which this year saw over two hundred … Read more

Swedish MEPs Call for De-Institutionalisation

During the Freedom Drive, the delegation from Sweden held a meeting with a number of Swedish MEPs. As a result of this meeting, a group of MEPs published an article in a major newspaper calling … Read more

Road Movie Contest

Now that the Freedom Drive is over, ENIL is collecting entries to its Road Movie Contest. If you have photos or videos from the Freedom Drive, please send them to the ENIL Secretariat at secretariat@enil.eu. … Read more

Progress in Implementing Freedom Drive Demands

Before this year’s Freedom Drive, we analysed the progress made in implementing the demands from 2009. In case you have not had a chance to read this document, we are sending it to you again. … Read more

Report from the Freedom Drive 2011

This report includes summaries of all the meetings and events organised during the Freedom Drive week. You will also find the selected press coverage and the main documents in the Annex to the report. The … Read more

Sweden: Freedom Drive road trip

We were nine members from JAG in Sweden who travelled by bus from Stockholm to France together with our personal assistants to participate in Freedom Drive in Strasbourg. Here are some pictures and impressions from … Read more

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