Jul 30, 2018 News

ENIL-COE Youth Study Session Calls for Political Participation

The European Network on Independent Living (ENIL), in cooperation with the Council of Europe, organised its seventh joint study session. It was entitled “Active citizenship and political participation of young disabled people as a pathway towards Independent Living”and took place between 24 June and 1 July, at the European...

Jul 30, 2018

Save the Date: 2019 Freedom Drive

Jul 30, 2018

ECJ Rules in Favour of Personal Assistance

New Fact Sheet on Independent Living

In cooperation with Inclusion Europe, we drafted a Fact sheet on Independent Living for People with Intellectual Disabilities. The new fact sheet covers the questions of whether people with intellectual disabilities can benefit from independent living, personal assistance, and how they can be supported in making decisions and being...

Call for Tender: Inclusive Education

Together with the European Association of Service Providers for Persons with Disabilities, the European Disability Forum, COFACE Families Europe, Inclusion Europe and Mental Health Europe, we are launching a Call for Tender for “Perceptions of inclusive education – a study to identify opportunities for co-production”. The purpose of this...

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Dec 06, 2017

Independent Living Heroes – Jamie Bolling and Zara Todd

Meet two prominent figures of the Independent Living Movement - in this article, part of the Independent Living Heroes series.

Apr 27, 2018

DI Process Slows Down in Croatia

On 20 April, ENIL sent an Open letter to the Croatian Minister of Demography, Family, Youth and Social Policy Ms. Neda Murganic, in order to raise our concerns about the current administration’s reluctance to continue the process of transition...

Jun 19, 2018

Italy is fighting for the right to Independent Living

On June 8, 9 and 10 synchronized marches took place in 15 Italian cities to protest against the lack of funding for personal assistance. Despite several laws for the inclusion of disabled people in the society and the ratification...

European Network on Independent Living

ENIL is a cross - disability rights civil society organization working in all EU countries. ENIL represents the disability movement for human rights and social inclusion based on solidarity, peer support, deinstitutionalisation, democracy, self-representation, cross disability and self-determination.