Dec 27, 2018 News

Goodbye to 2018 – bring on the New Year!

2018 was a difficult year for ENIL – just before the year began, we learnt that we had lost the European Commission operating grant, which we had for a number of years. So, at the beginning of the year, we had to say goodbye to our Director Zara Todd,...

Dec 27, 2018

Government Agrees to Amend Portuguese Law on Independent Living

Dec 27, 2018

Let’s Talk About Personal Assistance

Meet Our New Intern

Last month, we were pleased to welcome Naiara Santillana at our Brussels Office, for a 6-month internship supported by the Global Training Programme by Fomento San Sebastian. We have asked Naiara to introduce herself to our readers in the article below. Hello all, My name is Naiara Santillana. I...

European Disability and Development Week 2018

With Christmas around the corner, the disability community has gathered in Brussels for the European Disability and Development Week (from 3 December, the International Day of Persons with Disabilities until 7 December, Human Rights Day). For ENIL, the week started on the 2nd of December, when some of the...

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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.

Oct 10, 2018

Croatia: End Confinement of People with Disabilities

(Brussels, October 10, 2018) – Croatia’s government should end the confinement of children and adults with disabilities in institutions, five disabled people’s and human rights organizations said today in a letter to Prime Minister Andrej Plenković. Despite some initial...

Sep 27, 2018

NOW Was THE TIME: 1st Global Disability Summit

On the 24th of July, the Department for International Development of the UK (DFID), the Government of Kenya and the International Disability Alliance (IDA) organized the first Global Disability Summit in London. ENIL was represented at the Summit by...

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.