Category: Campaigns

  • Challenging the denial of inclusive education for children with disabilities in Flanders

    Challenging the denial of inclusive education for children with disabilities in Flanders

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    Read our press release about the launch of the collective complaint here On 25 April 2014, in partnership with the Flemish organisation Gelijke Rechten voor ledere Persoon met een handicap (Equal Rights for Each Person with a disability – ‘GRIP’), Validity (formerly MDAC) sent a collective complaint to the European Committee of Social Rights, challenging the policy of segregating…

  • Ireland: Legal Capacity in Ireland

    Ireland: Legal Capacity in Ireland

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    Validity (formerly MDAC) has returned from a mission to Ireland. On 29 November 2011, Oliver Lewis, Validity’s Executive Director, with colleagues from Amnesty International Ireland, met with the Chair and Vice Chair of the Justice Committee of the Dáil Éireann (the House of Representatives, the lower chamber in the Irish Parliament) and then with senior…