
Disability as a subtopic? New publication on EU Care Strategy
Last October, the Foundation of European Progressive Studies (FEPS), the party foundation of the European social democrats, began working on…

Judy Heumann has left us.
The worldwide Independent Living and Disability Rights Movement has lost its most outspoken, powerful, and tireless spokesperson. Judy Heumann passed…

ENIL in Lebanon: Transition towards independent living within the Community
On 14-15 February we were invited to the Conference on Transition towards Independent Living within the Community For Persons with…

The Global Coalition on Deinstitutionalisation Meets in Mexico to Discuss Next Steps
From 23 – 24 January 2023, members of the Global Coalition on Deinstitutionalisation (GC-DI) met for the first time face…

Independent Living at the heart of the Zero Project Conference 2023
On 22-24 February, we attended the Zero Project Conference 2023 (ZeroCon23 in short), an annual disability inclusion gathering at the…

Freeing Disabled People from institutions in Japan
Misako Yasuhara is a disability activist who has been participating to the Independent Living movement since 2000, in Osaka, Japan.…

Our Advocacy Campaign on the European Care Strategy
The ENIL´s lobby campaign for a European Care Strategy that advances daisability rights has ended. Time to recapitulate the course…

How can you help the people of Turkey?
Dear ENIL Family, I am Melike Bal a board member of ENIL Youth. As you may have heard southern Turkey…

In Memoriam: Vanya Pandieva
Vanya was one of the pioneers of the independent living movement in Bulgaria. She was the coordinator of Bulgaria’s first…

Call for participants
The ENIL Youth Network, in cooperation with the Council of Europe, is holding a study session at the European Youth…