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"Women with disabilities are women first, sharing the dreams and disappointments common to women in a male-dominated society. But because society persists in viewing disability as an emblem of passivity and incompetence, disabled women occupy a devalued status in the social hierarchy. This book represents the intersection of the feminist and disability rights perspectives; it analyzes the forces that push disabled women towards the margins of social life, and it considers the resources that enable these women to resist the stereotype".
Michelle Fine, Adrienne Asch: "Women with Disabilities"
The purpose of this toolkit is to modernise care and support systems by ensuring that respect for human rights and equality are at the heart of reforms. Structural Funds have the potenti al to support the development of quality family-based and community-based alternatives to institutional care, and to ensure that these services are available to all those who need them. Hundreds of thousands of persons with disabilities and older people across Europe live in long-stay residential institutions, excluded from the rest of society and facing a life of exclusion, poverty, health inequalities and reduced life chances. In order to ensure that all individuals with support needs can live independently and participate in their communities, countries must move away from institutional care to a system of community-based care and support. This is a complex process, which includes the development of quality services in the community, the planned closure of long-stay residential institutions and the transfer of resources from the institutional system to the new services, thus ensuring long-term sustainability. Importantly, it involves ensuring that mainstream services such as healthcare and labour market services, education and training, housing and transport are accessible and available to everyone. This process is often referred to as “deinstitutionalisation”.
European Expert Group on the Transition from Institutional to Community-based Care | ECCL
European Expert Group on the Transition from Institutional to Community-based Care
European Commission Meeting on Disability: Presidents of the European Council, the Commission and the Parliament join forces with the European Disability Forum
'One in six Europeans lives with some form of disability. Efforts to support vulnerable groups must be doubled in times of crisis as they are likely to be the first affected. Europe must ensure that the impact of the necessary austerity measures is minimized, especially for this group. All material and immaterial barriers to their full participation in society must be removed. The inclusion of people with disabilities would also provide an indispensable contribution to the near future needs of the European labour market as a result of the retiring millions of the baby-boom generation. The European Disability Strategy provides a valuable contribution in this direction. The European Parliament is firmly committed to the safeguarding of the rights of people with disabilities as is reflected by their inclusion in all relevant legislation and staff regulation and last but not least by the Parliament as a workplace itself."
Article 26
Integration of persons with disabilitiesThe Union recognises and respects the right of persons with disabilities to benefit from measures designed to ensure their independence, social and occupational integration and participation in the life of the community.
CHARTER OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION