Las personas con discapacidad se enfrentan a muchos obstáculos y les resulta más difícil mantener la distancia social y física, por lo que corren mayor riesgo de contraer la COVID-19 y de caer gravemente enfermas como consecuencia de ello. Sin embargo, en la UE no se las ha incluido explícitamente en los grupos de vacunación prioritarios.
In a plenary session debate with the Commissioner for Equality, the EESC welcomed the new EU Disability Rights Strategy for the next decade, describing it as a key moment for the rights of persons with disabilities. Its implementation is even more important in light of the COVID-19 pandemic which is taking its heaviest toll on Europe's most vulnerable, including persons with disabilities.
I ask you to transform the landscape for the disabled people with them, not for them. I am so grateful that you are facilitating this conversation and instigating this debate. But this cannot just be a moment. It is a movement that I invite you to join, Ms Burke tells the EESC on the eve of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities
Top proposals include full harmonisation of the new agenda with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and strengthened EU-level supervision of its application so as to ensure freedom from discrimination for people with disabilities and their acceptance as part of human diversity and humanity throughout the EU.
Now we have a golden opportunity to align the EU's next disability strategy with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
On 21 October, the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) held a public hearing to gather input from grassroots organisations for its opinion on the EU's next ten-year strategy for disability rights and to draw the lessons from the agenda due to expire in 2020.
An EESC hearing points to the need to embrace a human rights-based approach to disability in news and entertainment programmes, to build a more inclusive society that sees the person, and not the disability
An EESC hearing has revealed that almost a million EU citizens may be deprived of their right to vote in the upcoming European elections as a result of their disability, and many more may face obstacles when casting their ballots.
The EESC hearing on the new MFF and cohesion policy seen from the disability perspective shows the EC proposal could still be improved
The European Commission's proposals for new rules governing the funds that underpin EU cohesion policy fail to list equality and accessibility for persons with disabilities among mandatory eligibility criteria for funding. This poses a risk that public money may be used to finance infrastructure or services that will only increase their discrimination, an EESC hearing revealed.
The Diversity Europe Group recently organised a structured brainstorming session aiming at encouraging its Members to think out of the box and to come up with ideas to feed into proposals for the Sibiu Summit on the Future of Europe. This session kick-started our Group's contribution to the EESC Roadmap 'From Cracow to Sibiu and beyond'.
CESE: la UE tiene que combatir y prohibir todas las discriminaciones por razón de género o de discapacidad que afectan en Europa a aproximadamente 40 millones de mujeres con discapacidad
El 11 de julio, el Comité Económico y Social Europeo (CESE), un órgano que representa a la sociedad civil organizada europea, pidió a las instituciones y Estados miembros de la UE que redoblen sus esfuerzos por proteger a las mujeres y niñas con discapacidad, que siguen sujetas a múltiples formas de discriminación en la sociedad europea por razón tanto de género como de discapacidad, lo cual a menudo desemboca en su exclusión social.
