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European Network on Independent Living
ENIL is a user-led network of disabled people, with members throughout Europe. Our mission is to advocate for Independent Living values, principles and practices: provision of personal assistance and other community supports and services, a barrier-free environment and adequate technical aids, together making full citizenship of disabled people possible.
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ENIL is a network based on solidarity and peer support
ENIL is a forum for all disabled people, Independent Living organisations and their non-disabled allies on the issues of Independent Living. 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. Our vision is of Europe where all disabled people are able to exercise choice and control over their lives, on an equal level with others; where they are valued members of the community and can enjoy all of their human rights, as set out in the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
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ENIL works to strengthen the empowerment of disabled people, through providing resources for peer support and peer-to-peer training. ENIL enhances the European disability sector by providing an arena for the sharing of disabled people’s experience of services and by providing expertise on independent living. Our Youth Network brings together young people, making their voice heard in the independent living movement.
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UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture recognises institutions as places of deprivation of liberty
The United Nations Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (hereafter “the Subcommittee”) has recently released its …
Freedom Drive 2024 Brings Activists Together in Brussels
The 11th edition of the ENIL Freedom Drive ended last week, on 25 September. After over a year of planning, we finally got together …
ENIL Freedom Drive sets new impulses for policies on Independent Living
The Freedom Drive 2024 was a vibrant space for the exchange of innovative practices to make progress towards Independent Living of disabled people. The …
Find out about Independent Living in your country
The Independent Living survey was launched in 2020, to find about the state of independent living around Europe. Its results are updated regularly and shared with policy and decision makers at the European level.
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31/10/2024 – 31/10/2024
From Words to PracticeThe Global Coalition on Deinstitutionalisation (GC-DI) has been running a webinar series entitled ‘From Words to Practice’, aiming to unpack different chapters of the …
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PAW – Personal Assistance WatchWhat is PAW? Personal Assistance Watch – PAW is a new space run by the European Network on Independent Living to discuss access to …
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