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 away on March 4, ...
Press Release: Freedom Drivers Demand Equal Rights Today, not Tomorrow
In Brussels, 29 September – The European Network on Independent Living – ENIL, successfully ended its 10th Freedom Drive yesterday. The event, which brought ...
Press Release: Disabled People Take to Streets to Demand Rights
In Brussels, 27 September – Hundreds of disabled people and supporters took to the streets of Brussels, asking for the life to live in ...
Statement on the European Care Strategy
Statement of the European Network on Independent Living on the European Care Strategy The full statement can be downloaded here. The European Network on ...
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 ...
The European Year of Youth and How We Celebrate It
Today is the International Youth Day, and on this occasion Kamil Goungor, our Policy and Movement Support Officer, wrote an article about the European ...
Independent Living Stopped in its Tracks in the EU and Turkey
In June ENIL and the Turkish Association of Women with Disabilities presented the results of the PAKT projects which compared independent living in Turkey ...
ENIL Study Session 2022
From the 13th to 18th of June 2022 in the European Youth Center Strasbourg we had our Study Session ”Sustainable Development Goals and Youth ...
ENIL Launches 2021 Annual Report
The European Network on Independent Living – ENIL is pleased to launch its 2021 Annual Report. This report covers ENIL’s activities between 1 January ...
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 ...