Diplomacy and disability - Related links

European Commission

• Persons with disabilities, EC website
• AccessibleEU, EC website
• Disability Employment Package to improve labour market outcomes for persons with disabilities, EC website
• Speech at the European Parliament's Disability Intergroup, Speech, January 2025
• Regulation 1107/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the rights of disabled persons and persons with reduced mobility when travelling by air, EC Regulation, October 2024
• Discrimination in the European Union, Report, December 2023
• Guide of good electoral practices in Member States addressing the participation of citizens with disabilities in the electoral process, Guidelines, December 2023
• Union of equality: Strategy for the rights of persons with disabilities 2021-2030, Overview, March 2021
• Union of Equality: Strategy for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2021-2030, Communication, March 2021
• Equality: All members of the new Disability Platform now known, News, December 2021
• Equal opportunities for people with disabilities: A European Action Plan, Communication, October 2010
• European Disability Strategy 2010-2020: A Renewed Commitment to a Barrier-Free Europe, Communication, November 2010
• Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, Title III, Article 26 Integration of persons with disabilities

European Parliament

• Disability Intergroup, Website
• Understanding EU policies for people with disabilities, EP briefing, December 2024
• European Parliament’s second Disability Rights Week - from 2 to 6 December 2024, December 2024, EP event
• Updating the European strategy for the rights of persons with disabilities, At a Glance, December 2024
• Russia's war on Ukraine: People with disabilities, At a Glance, EPRS, November 2022
• Towards equal rights for persons with disabilities, At a Glance, December 2022
• Political participation of people with disabilities in the EU, Briefing, May 2023
• European Parliament resolution of 18 June 2020 on the European Disability Strategy post-2020, September 2021
• The implementation of the 2015 Concluding Observations of the CRPD Committee by the EU, Study, December 2021
• Employment and disability in the European Union, Briefing, May 2020
• European disability policy, In depth analysis, EPRS, June 2017

The Council of the European Union/European Council

• Council Conclusions on the inclusion of persons with disabilities in the labour market, Conclusions, December 2022
• Directive  2019/882 on the accessibility requirements for products and services, Directive, April 2019

Other sources

• Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)
• The Washington Group on Disability Statistics
• Disability Inclusive Climate Action, International Disability Alliance
• Towards COP26: Enhancing Disability Inclusion in Climate Action, International Disability Alliance
• The European Parliament and inclusion of persons living with disabilities, ERA Forum, March 2023
• Ukraine: 2.7 million people with disabilities at risk, UN committee warns, UN News, Avril 2022, EN only
• Ukrainians with disabilities are being left behind. It's time for concerted humanitarian action, World Economic Forum, May 2022
• 100 days: Ukrainians with intellectual disabilities and their families surviving the war, Inclusion Europe, Article, June 2022
• What the war means for Ukrainians with disabilities, Article, Al Jazeera, October 2022
• Analytical study on the promotion and protection of the rights of persons with disabilities in the context of climate change - Report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Thematic Report, April 2020