10 things that Inclusion Europe is working on at present
Our anniversary party at the World Congress in Birmingham
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#30yearsofInclusion – Inclusion Europe turns 30 in 2018!
We celebrated with you at our anniversary event, by portraying our Inclusion Heroes, and we also want to share our TOP 3 with you:
- What are 30 highlights from the past years?
- What are the 10 most important issues we worked on this year?
- And what are the 10 things we want to see happening in the near future?
Below is part 2 of our series:
The 10 most important issues Inclusion Europe worked and is working on this year:
Political participation: Our video on political participation shows what self-advocates can do to take an active part in politics. We talked about the right to vote in the European Parliament and at our leadership training in Brussels. Finally, we launched our election manifesto on how to make the most of the 2019 Elections to the European Parliament
Violence against women with intellectual disabilities: Our new report explores the types of violence women with intellectual disabilities suffered in institutions, and how they cope with their experiences later on.
People with complex support needs: Our “Task force on people with complex support needs” was launched this year! It exchanged experiences on how to improve the participation of people with complex support needs in the respective organisations, at work and at events.
We also published a report on inclusive education of children with complex support needs.
And we are working on a paper on inclusion of people with complex support needs. The paper was approved by the Board and will be presented to the General Assembly 2019 for approval.
Self-advocacy: Our self-advocates met in Peniche to talk about a range of different issues. Self-advocates and family members discussed the upcoming European elections at our leadership training in Brussels.
Accessibility: We were pushing for a strong accessibility act within an alliance of 19 organisations. Now that the act has been approved, we want MEPs to improve accessibility in Europe by supporting its implementation. Countries should also take additional actions to ensure that European services and products are accessible to everybody.
Education: Our exploratory study on the inclusion of pupils with complex support needs in mainstream schools analyzed the current situation and set out recommendations. We are also working to promote and develop inclusion in higher education in the ICLife project.
Work-Life Balance: #IwantWorkLifeBalance – alongside several other organisations, we continue to petition the Council of Ministers for a strong Work-Life Balance directive
Health: Together with a number of other organisation, we continue to oppose the Draft Additional Protocol to the Oviedo Convention on biomedicine, which would authorise forced treatment and forced placement, notably in institutions.
Independent Living: We also stressed the importance of independent living in an analysis of the EU Council conclusions on Independent living and published a factsheet on the topic.
The Croatian Prime Minister received a letter from five disabled people’s and human rights organizations, including Inclusion Europe, urging him to end the confinement of people with disabilities in institutions.
Equality and Non-discrimination: “Discrimination is often underreported” – we did a submission to the UN Committee on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on Article 5 of the UN CRPD, to point out where its implementation is still lacking for people with intellectual disabilities and their families.
We talked about many of these topics at the World Congress of Inclusion International, which took place in Birmingham. The issues we worked upon this year were part of our 2018 year on Empowerment. In the next years, we will focus upon these topics:
2019: Elect
2020: Educate
2021: Employ
2022: End segregation
Learn more in our video!
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Inclusion Europe is working now
on these 10 things!
Here are the 10 most important topics
Inclusion Europe is working on right now:
- Participation in politics
We made a video about
what self-advocates can do
to take part in politics.
You can watch it by clicking here.
We talked about the right to vote
at the European Parliament.
Click here to read more about it.
We talked about the right to vote
also at the Leadership Training
we organised in October 2018.
Click here to read more about it.
We wrote a manifesto
on why the European elections are important.
It is not written in easy-to-read
You can find it by clicking here.
2. Violence against women
with intellectual disabilities
Inclusion Europe wrote a document
about violence against women
with intellectual disabilities.
It talks about the different kinds of violence or abuse
women who lived in institutions.
It also talks about what they did afterwards to feel better.
Click here if you want to read more about it.
3. People with complex support needs
Since 2018 we at Inclusion Europe
have a group working
for people with complex support needs.
This group works to include
people with complex support needs
in the community they live in.
Click here if you want to read more about it.
We have also written a report
about inclusive education
for children with complex support needs.
You can read more about it by clicking here.
In 2019 we will finish to write
another report
on people with complex support needs.
Our self-advocates have met in Peniche,
a city in Portugal.
They talked about many things.
Read more about it by clicking here.
Last year in Brussels we organised
a Leadership Training.
At the training, self-advocates and family members
talked about the 2019 European elections.
Read more by clicking here.
5. Accessibility
Inclusion Europe together
with many other organisations
has worked to have a strong law on accessibility
called Accessibility Act.
Read more about it here.
6. The Accessibility Act
is signed now
Now we want every country
of the European Union
to make this law happen.
Countries in Europe should also work
to make everything in Europe
accessible for everybody.
7. Education
We have written a report
on inclusion in schools
of children with complex support needs.
We also work to support
inclusion at school
for older students
with the ICLife project.
8. Having the time to do things
outside of work
Inclusion Europe together
with many other organisations
wants a new law in Europe.
This law should give people
the time to do things outside of work,
and not just stay at work all the time.
Read more about it by clicking here.
9. Being healthy and well
There is a text for an international law.
This law says that it is ok to put people in institutions
and give them medicine
even if they don’t want to.
Inclusion Europe and other organisations
want to stop this law.
10. Living independently
We have written an article
on what the European Union has said
about independent living.
Click here if you want to read it.
We have also written a document
on independent living
for people with intellectual disabilities.
11. Fighting discrimination
People who suffer from discrimination
often don’t talk about it.
Then they don’t get help.
The UN CRPD is a document
which can help fight discrimination.
We told the UN CRPD Committee
that sometimes this document
is not respected in every country.
We have talked a lot
about all these topics
at the World Congress
last year in the United Kingdom.
Read more about it by clicking here.
In 2018 we worked on empowerment
of people with intellectual disabilities.
In 2019 we will work on the right to vote
for people with intellectual disabilities.
In 2020 we will work
on inclusive education
for people with intellectual disabilities.
In 2021 we will work
on the right of people with intellectual disabilities
to have a good job.
In 2022 we will work
to end the segregation of people with intellectual disabilities,
so that every institution in Europe
will finally close.
You can watch an easy-to-understand video
on these topics by clicking here.
