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European Disability Strategy 2010-2020

Adopted on 21/09/2011
Reference: 
SOC/403-EESC-2011-1382
Referral: 
COM(2010) 636 final
Rapporteur: 
Vardakastanis (Diversity Europe - GR III / Greece)
Plenary session: 
474 -
Sep 21, 2011 Sep 22, 2011

The Commission communication represents a fundamental policy instrument for people with disabilities. The EESC welcomes the European Disability Strategy, as an active policy instrument to implement the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The EESC believes that the UN Convention sets a clear framework that allows people with disabilities to contribute to the realisation of their potential, and calls for the EU to take the next and equally important steps of ratifying the Optional Protocol and of ensuring that existing and future secondary legislation respect the Convention.

EESC opinion: European Disability Strategy 2010-2020

Shaping the EU agenda for disability rights 2020-2030: a contribution from the European Economic and Social Committee (own-initiative opinion)

Adopted on 11/12/2019
Reference: 
SOC/616-EESC-2019
Rapporteur: 
Ioannis VARDAKASTANIS (Diversity Europe - GR III / Greece)
Plenary session: 
548 -
Dec 11, 2019 Dec 12, 2019

The opinion presents  the EESC's proposal for the new European Disability  strategy  2020-2030, at a crucial moment in the EU landscape. With a new European Commission, a new European Parliament and a new budget programming period, the timing is perfect to come up with   a Disability Strategy that fully takes into account the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCPRD), the Sustainable Development Goals and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The opinion tackles various policy areas, drawing attention to the crosscutting character of disability rights.

EESC opinion: Shaping the EU agenda for disability rights 2020-2030: a contribution from the European Economic and Social Committee (own-initiative opinion)

The real right of persons with disabilities to vote in EP elections

Adopted on 20/03/2019
Reference: 
SOC/554-EESC-2017-00587
Rapporteur: 
Pater (Diversity Europe - GR III / Poland)
Plenary session: 
542 -
Mar 20, 2019 Mar 21, 2019

In each of the 27 EU countries, there are laws or organisational arrangements which exclude some voters with disabilities from participating in EP elections. If the best practices from across all countries were implemented, an ideal system would emerge in which every EU citizen with disabilities not only would have the full possibility to vote but also would be able to choose for themselves the most convenient way in which to vote.

Information report: The real right of persons with disabilities to vote in EP elections

Concluding observations of the UN CRPD Committee to the European Union – A new strategy for persons with disabilities in the European Union

Adopted on 19/10/2016
Reference: 
SOC/538-EESC-2016-00695-00-00-ac
Rapporteur: 
Vardakastanis (Diversity Europe - GR III / Greece)
Plenary session: 
520 -
Oct 19, 2016 Oct 20, 2016

EESC opinion: Concluding observations of the UN CRPD Committee to the European Union – A new strategy for persons with disabilities in the European Union

The situation of women with disabilities (exploratory opinion requested by the European Parliament)

Adopted on 11/07/2018
Reference: 
SOC/579-EESC-2018-01639-00-00-ac-tra
Rapporteur: 
Gunta ANČA (Diversity Europe - GR III / Latvia)

Women with disabilities constitute 16% of the total population of women in Europe, which means in the EU there are approximately 40 million women and girls with disabilities.
Women with disabilities face intersectional discrimination in all areas of life, including, socio-economic disadvantages, social isolation, violence against women, forced sterilisation and abortion, lack of access to community services, low-quality housing, institutionalisation, inadequate health care and denial of the opportunity to contribute and engage actively in society.

 

EESC opinion: The situation of women with disabilities (exploratory opinion requested by the European Parliament)

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