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Invitation to the Freedom Drive Protest 2022 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 ...

Disability and Social Protection Disability and Social Protection

Social protection systems are supposed to enable us to live full, independent lives but are ill-equipped to support the disabled. Which changes do we ...

Get Ready for the 9th Edition of the Independent Living Day! Get Ready for the 9th Edition of the Independent Living Day!

In 2014, the European Network on Independent Living – ENIL celebrated 25 years of existence. To commemorate this event and to celebrate our growing ...

What Do We Want from the European Care Strategy? 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 ...

I was 14 when my country got attacked I was 14 when my country got attacked

I was just turning 14, when Russia waged a full-scale military offensive on Georgia in August 2008. Throughout the horrors of the war days ...

Building a Network of Personal Assistance Supporters in Turkey Building a Network of Personal Assistance Supporters in Turkey

What is personal assistance and how to make it a reality in Turkey? These were some of the key questions addressed during the two-day ...