Tag: community-based services
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Validity calls on the Irish EU Presidency to restore disability rights safeguards in the next EU budget
Validity Foundation has submitted a briefing to the Irish Government calling for the reinstatement of disability rights conditionality in the European Union’s next long-term budget, the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) 2028-2034. Under the current 2021-2027 framework, Member States must satisfy two enabling conditions before accessing EU structural funds: a horizontal condition requiring compliance with the UN Convention…
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Uganda: High Court orders Government to ensure community services for children with autism
The High Court in Uganda has found the Government in violation of the human rights of children with disabilities in a case related to a child with autism. In a landmark judgment, Justice Winifred Nabisinde found that failure by the Government to provide rehabilitation and habilitation services to the child amounted to a violation of…
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Finland: NGOs seek legal recognition that locking people in institutions is not a lawful response to Covid-19 epidemic
Photo: Mr. Petri Virolainen, Ambassador of Friendship, who brings happiness to residents in housing service units across Finland, has been stopped from visiting. Validity, Law Firm Kumpuvuori Ltd. and ENIL (European Network on Independent Living) have filed a collective complaint to the European Committee of Social Rights arguing that the measures violate the rights to…
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COVID-19 Disability Rights Monitor Report highlights catastrophic global failure to protect the rights of persons with disabilities
Final report: Click here Easy-to-read summary of the final report: Click here In its final report, the COVID-19 Disability Rights Monitor (DRM) Coordinating Group calls for urgent action by States and the international community to halt the catastrophic failure to protect the lives, health and rights of persons with disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic. The…
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‘Urgently close Topház’ – says the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
18 February 2020, Budapest. Last week the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC Committee) published its Concluding Observations for Hungary. In November 2018, the CRC Committee requested the Hungarian Government to submit information on how Hungary has progressed on implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of Child to which the…