Rights of Disabled Children Ignored in Austria: Disability Rights Organisations Submit Third Complaint to the European Commission
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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 ...
Deinstitutionalisation
Deinstitutionalisation is a political and a social process, which provides for the shift from institutional care and other isolating and segregating settings to independent living.
First Results of ENIL’s Independent Living Survey Available
On 10 December, the Human Rights Day, the European Network on Independent Living – ENIL published the first results of the Independent Living Survey. ...