Signature Campaign

Across Europe, thousands of disabled people still spend their lives inappropriately and unjustifiably segregated from society. With a severe lack, or complete absence, of community-based services in many European countries, untold numbers of people with disabilities have no access to quality alternatives to institutional care.

The segregation of people with disabilities in long-stay residential institutions is in itself a violation of disabled people's human rights.

To ensure that people can move into the community, and will no longer need to live in long-stay residential institutions, it is essential that governments, service providers and funding agencies commit to shifting the funding from long stay institutions to community-based services. They must focus on the development of quality community-based services that are available to everyone who needs them.

Article 19 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities provides that all disabled people have the right to live and participate in the community. Comprehensive, quality community-based services must therefore be available and accessible to all people with disabilities, including people with complex dependency needs.

ENIL and ECCL call on:

Relevant authorities, government agencies, political bodies, service providers and funding agencies:

To actively develop quality, comprehensive community-based services that comply with the following basic quality standards:

           -Location within a local community
           -Opportunities to interact with other members of the local community
           -Respect for each person's personal space, privacy and property
           -Availability of the necessary personal support for each disabled person

To stop financing or otherwise supporting the establishment of new long stay institutions for any group of disabled people;
To stop new admissions to existing long stay institutions and provide quality community-based services instead of placing people in institutions;
To ratify without reservations the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Optional Protocol.

Relevant organisations and members of the public:

To support the right of all people with disabilities to live in the community as equal citizens;
To support the development of quality, comprehensive community-based alternatives to institutional care.

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Signatures will be collected until the next Freedom Drive in 2011, when disabled people from all over Europe will gather in Strasbourg to campaign for their rights and to address their MEPs. The petition will be presented to the European Parliament and other authorities at the European and national levels.

519 people have signed this campaign.

Aage Gjesdal, Grindvoll
Achilleas Vasilikopoulos, Athens, Greece
Achim Schlafke Schlafke, Bochum, Germany
Adolfo López Baña, A Coruña
Adriatik Bicaku, Tirana Albania
AGLAIA KATSIGIANNI, DRAMA, GREECE
Aikaterini Tempeli, Athens, Greece
Aislinn Hutchinson, Redhill, UK
Akis Giannikopoulos, Athens, Greece
Alan Tennyson, Cork Ireland
Aleksandra Janezic, Slovenia
Alenka Sever, Slovenia
Ales Praprotnik, Radovljica, Slovenia
Alexandra Peristeraki, Aghia Varvara, Greece
Alfred Vaasen, Belgium
Alfredo Herranz Sanz, Boadilla del Monte, Madrid, Spain
ALJANA HAJDINJAK, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Aly Gynn, Cornwall
Ama Rainbow Love, Bristol, UK
Amalia Poulimenou, Corfu, Greece
Ana Liébanas Serrano, Tarragona España
Ana šraj, slovenia
Anastasia Nikolitsa, Athens, Greece
Anastasia Kastanaki, Chania, Greece
Anastasia Melissidou, thssaloniki, greece
ANDRE DANTAS, SAQUAREMA, RIO DE JANEIRO, BRASIL
Andreas Hinz, Halle, Germany
Andrej Golob, kamnik,slovenija
Andrej Piska, Ljubljana, Slovenija
Andrej Kurnik, Ljubljana
Andreja Rafaeli, Slovenia
Anita Byczynski, Sweden
Anita Ek, Sweden
Ann Whitehurst, Stoke-onTrent, UK
Anna Grosch, Forsvik, Sweden
Anna Tzoannou, Athens, Greece
Anna Lena Berglund, Oslo, Norway
Anne Løfsgaard, Oslo, Norway
Anne-Karin Gørbitz, Norway
Annet NIJHOF, HOLLAND
Annick Willemans, Roeselare, Belgium
Antje Claaßen, Burladingen, Germany
Anton Kosir, mojstrana
Antonio Centeno, Barcelona, Spain
Antonio Gallego, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Antonis Galanopoulos, Thessaloniki,Greece
Antonis Tsokos, athens, greece
Apostolos Sabaziotis, Athens, Greece
Asdis Jenna Astradsdottir, Iceland Koparvogur
Ask Andersen, Brussels
Atanas Iankov, Bulgaria
Athanassios Papastathis, Pireus, Hellas
Athena Frangouli, Athens, Greece
ATHINA PAPADOPOULOU, ATHENS, GREECE
Aurélie garrigues Aure, santiago de compostela, españa
Avguštin Mau ec, Slovenija
BAAKEN PETER, Düsseldorf, Germany
Barbara Kobal, Ljubljana, Slovenija
Barbara Pešut, slovenia
Barbara Tomsic, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Bartz Gerhard, Hollenbach, Deutschland
Bastian Koch, Solingen, Germany
Beatriz Monseco Diez, spain
Bill Scott, Edinburgh, Scotland
Bill Giannakopoulos, Rio Patron, Grecce
Bill Scott, Paisley, Scotland
Bjorn Terje Lie, Drammen, Norway
Blanca Diaz Cachon, Madrid Spain
BLANQUER Zig, france
Bogdan Osolin, Slovenia
Bojan Predan, Maribor, Slovenia
Bojan Radej, slovenija
Bojan ELOFIGA, Maribor, SLOVENIA
Bojan Markovi Markovi, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Bojana Smartek, Belgrade, Serbia
Branko ŠENKIŠ, ptuj, slovenija
Brich Karin, München Germany
Bruynooghe Jos, Torhout (Belgium)
Camilla Brevikdal, norway
Carmen Urbano, Girona-España
Carola Szymanowicz, Falkensee, Deutschland
Carolyn Nelson, UK
Celia Gálvez, Barcelona, Spain
Charles Borg, Sliema, Malta
Charles Hooker, Chisinau, Moldova
Chiara Fezzardi, Valencia, Spain
Christian Bayerlein, Koblenz, Germany
Christian Flatebø, Tromsø, Norway
Christine Reyle, Germany
Chrysoula Papadopoulou, athens
Claus Georg, Berlin, Germany
Colin Revell, Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire, England
Costa Kouvelakis, kalamata-HELLAS
Dafni Ioannidou, Greece
Damjan Skok, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Dan i Maraž, Slovenia
Dana Korinkova, Prague, Czech Republic
Daniele Maramigi, greece-itaLy
Danijela Djurovic, Belgrade, Serbia
Daphne Pearson, Valencia, Spain

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