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.
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25/03/2021
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15/202103/12/2020
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41/2020I 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
14/12/2015
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76/201580 million people live with disability in the EU – new European Accessibility Act published in December