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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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The ENIL Youth Network is looking for new Board members!
ENIL Youth Network is looking for new Board members, to continue the important work of young disabled people within the European Network on Independent …
LITI-GATE Regional Training: Empowering Disability Advocates through Strategic Litigation
At ENIL, we believe that people with disabilities must be at the forefront of legal and policy change. Through the LITI-GATE project, we are …
ENIL & Validity React to CRPD Committee’s Conclusions on the EU
The European Network on Independent Living – ENIL and the Validity Foundation welcome the adoption of the concluding observations on the combined second and …
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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31/05/2025 – 31/05/2025
ENIL Youth Network General Assembly 2025The ENIL Youth Network’s General Assembly (GA) and Elections of the new Board will be held on Saturday, 31 May 2025, from 14:00 – …
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22/04/2025 – 06/05/2025
Bound To The Script: Workshops Rewriting the Narrative on Disability in the MediaBound to the wheelchair.” We’ve heard that phrase far too often.But what if the real limitation lies not in bodies—but in the scripts written …
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24/05/2025 – 24/05/2025
Official ENIL 2025 General Assembly NoticePlease note that this event is exclusively for ENIL members. The ENIL Board informs herewith the ENIL membership that the ENIL 2025 General Assembly …
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