Miroslava-Mima Ivanović from Montenegro is a woman with multiple disability (wheelchair user with visual impairment), personal assistance user more than 15 years and disability activist almost two decades. Since April 2019, she is at the leadership position at the Initiative of Youth with Disabilities of Boka, while between December 2019 and November 2022, she was co-vice Chair of the ENIL’s Youth Network Board.
She is a lawyer with extensive experience in disability research, advocacy and public policy. She is co/author of numerous reports, policy briefs, manuals, but also of the Personal Assistance Provision Programme. She has participated in drafting nine laws, strategies, and local action plans which target the rights of persons with disabilites. Since 2013, she has initiated 14 court proceedings for protection from disability grounded discrimination, and she provides free legal aid to other persons with disabilites to do so and exercise and protect their rights through other proceedings.
She holds various educations on the rights of persons with disabilities for wide ranges of target groups, and she has participated in many trainings and conferences both at national and international level. She is fluent in English and intermediate in Italian and Russian. She is especially interested in deinstitutionalisation, personal assistance and legal capacity and she hopes that her legal expertise in disability rights field will benefit ENIL’s work in these areas.
