Open letter regarding human rights abuses in Slovenia’s institutions
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
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
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
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
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 ...