![Open letter regarding human rights abuses in Slovenia’s institutions](https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_webp,q_glossy,ret_img/https://enil.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-11-09-at-15.07.44.png)
On behalf of the European Network on Independent Living – ENIL, we wish to express our deepest concern about the violence and other human rights ...
![GC-DI: Statement on One-year Anniversary of Adoption of the Guidelines on Deinstitutionalization](https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_webp,q_glossy,ret_img/https://enil.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/WhatsApp-Image-2023-02-20-at-11.05.47-2.jpeg)
On 18 August 2023, the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities marked the one-year anniversary of adoption of its Guidelines on ...
![European Committee on Social Rights: Finland did not violate the Charter by locking people with disabilities in institutions during the pandemic](https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_webp,q_glossy,ret_img/https://enil.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Screenshot-2023-09-25-at-11.36.20.png)
On 25 August 2023, the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers decided that Finland did not violate the European Social Charter by isolating people ...
![Statement of the European Network on Independent Living regarding abuses in institutions for disabled people in Romania](https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_webp,q_glossy,ret_img/https://enil.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/ROMANIA-CARE-copy-1280x960.png)
In Brussels, 18 July 2021 The European Network on Independent Living – ENIL is appalled by the series of media reports about horrendous human ...
![Rights of Disabled Children Ignored in Austria: Disability Rights Organisations Submit Third Complaint to the European Commission](https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_webp,q_glossy,ret_img/https://enil.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-03-at-12.04.10-1280x744.png)
In Vienna and Brussels, 3 November 2022 – For the third time, Independent Living Austria (ILA) and the European Network for Independent Living (ENIL) ...
![Freedom Drive Demands 2022](https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_webp,q_glossy,ret_img/https://enil.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/freedom-768x960.png)
From the 26th to the 28th of September 2022, the European Network on Independent Living – ENIL will hold its 10th edition of the ...
![Invitation to the Freedom Drive Protest 2022](https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_webp,q_glossy,ret_img/https://enil.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/ENIL-Freedom-Drive-Protest-2022.png)
Human rights monitoring conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic produced evidence of grave and systemic violations of human rights of disabled people confined to institutions ...
![Meeting II of the ENIL Task Force on Independent Living](https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_webp,q_glossy,ret_img/https://enil.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/ENIl-Task-Force-Meeting-II.png)
On 5 June the ENIL Task Force on Independent Living meet for the second time. The meeting took place online on Zoom. More than ...
![Stopping the use of EU funds to support institutionalisation and segregation](https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_webp,q_glossy,ret_img/https://enil.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Deinstitutionalisation.jpg)
An isolated interpretation of the current legal framework as well as reactive enforcement activities by the European Commission enable to continued investment of EU ...
![ENIL Task Force on Independent Living meets for the first time](https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_webp,q_glossy,ret_img/https://enil.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/First-meeting-of-IL-task-force-1280x957.png)
On 25 May the ENIL Task Force on Independent Living meet for the first time, online on Zoom. 25 members of ENIL and allied ...
![What Do We Want from the European Care Strategy?](https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_webp,q_glossy,ret_img/https://enil.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Care-Strategy.jpg)
At the beginning of March 2022, the European Commission launched a public consultation on the new European Care Strategy. This article explains the main ...
![Postsocialist Care – Violence – Paternalism](https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_webp,q_glossy,ret_img/https://enil.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-23-at-17.04.53-1280x960.png)
The belated deinstitutionalization in post-communist societies is part of postsocialist care-violence-paternalism, economic scarcity, fear of impoverishment and a transgenerational aversion towards disabled people. In ...