Tag: Disability rights

  • Validity calls on the Irish EU Presidency to restore disability rights safeguards in the next EU budget

    Validity calls on the Irish EU Presidency to restore disability rights safeguards in the next EU budget

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    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…

  • Regulation on the Protection of Adults

    Regulation on the Protection of Adults

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    EU citizens with disabilities continue to be stripped of their legal capacity in many Member States by way of systems of ‘guardianship’. When this happens, they are not allowed to make decisions about their lives, like where and with whom to live, or how to spend their money. Countries often frame this as ‘protection’, but…