Recommended readings

A new resource created by the University of Minnesota Human Right Center and One Billion Strong ( OBS) is now available. It is entitled,  Human Rights. Yes! Action and Advocacy on the Rights of Persons … Read more

In June 2012, an article entitled ‘There’s no place like Home: The Right to Live in the Community for People with Disabilities, Under International Law and the Domestic Laws of the United States and Israel’ … Read more

The European Foundation Centre launched a study entitled “Assessing the impact of European Governments’ austerity plans on the rights of people with disabilities”. The study reveals how reduced spending on welfare and social services by … Read more

The European Expert Group on the Transition from Institutional to Community – based care have launched a set of key guidelines on how to make a sustained transition from institutional care to family-based and community-based … Read more

Volume 9 of the Equal Rights Trust Review focuses on the Equality of Persons with Disabilities. It includes articles on the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the EU Structural Funds and … Read more

Professor Gerard Quinn, Director of the Centre for Disability Law and Policy, National University of Ireland (Galway) and researcher at the centre Suzanne Doyle have written a paper examining the UN Convention on the Rights … Read more

“ The right of people with disabilities to live independently and be included in the community” Issue Paper commissioned and published by the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe. Download it here … Read more

The “JAG-model” – A description of how you can organize personal assistance with self-determination when you have multiple, severe disabilities and limited autonomy. Download the document Pa-manual_ENG        

The Scottish Human Rights Commission (SHRC) and the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) are hosting a series of four free online seminars. The aim of these seminars is to relate the Disability Convention to what … Read more

ENIL has a focus on multiple-discrimination and has worked on a selection of questions to be presented in a survey in the next months.  We would now like also to start the collection of examples … Read more

‘Handicapping Rules: The Overly Restrictive Application of Admissibility Criteria by the European Court of Human Rights to Complaints Concerning Disabled People’ By Constantin Cojocariu Abstract This article analyses the way in which admissibility rules related … Read more

‘Responsible Reform. A Report on the proposed changes to Disability Living Allowance’ This report is a comprehensive presentation of the most relevant evidence available on Disability Living Allowance (DLA) and the proposals to replace it with … Read more

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

When we were at the beginning of our struggle for our right to personal assistance and we started looking for role models we began by reading up on the history of the independent living movement. … Read more

It has been 20 years since the first attempts to implement Independent Living in Slovenia and 15 years since the foundation of YHD – Association for theory and culture of handicap, which is the only … Read more

Independent Living movement has inspired many people for several decades. Ideas and views who used to be controversial at first have been affirmed by good practices, disability studies and political documents (e.g. UNCRPD) time after … Read more

As you all know the financial and economical crisis is hitting people with disabilities in a disproportionately way. Through our network of independent living activists in Europe we are receiving alarming messages about austerity measures … Read more

ULOBA, the Norwegian Independent Living organization made a very good movie clip. In less than half an hour it is very well explained what the Independent Living movement is all about and where it originated. … Read more

The EASPD is the European Association of Service Providers for Persons with Disabilities and represents close to 9,000 social service provider organizations across Europe and across disability. On October 3rd & 4th they organized a conference … Read more

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