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.Markaya Henderson from European Disability Forum on the importance of legal capacity: "Unfortunately, at the EU level, deprivation of legal capacity is still there. Physical, mental and emotional abuse follows. People need their right to legal capacity be recognised." #ChoiceAndControl

We support the open letter started by a group of disability activists demanding an immediate ceasefire in #Gaza . Persons with disabilities, especially Palestinians with disabilities are facing horrors. #CeasefireNow 1/2 Sign: breakingthesilenceongaza.org

Health must be a strategic priority for the EU Council & the🆕European Commission European Parliament Our approach must promote the inter-linkages between health policy & changing demographics, the digital/environmental transitions, economic security & industrial policy Séamus Boland #EU4Health

Opening the Civil Society Organisations' Group of the EESC conference on the State of Health in the EU 🗣️Health is an architectural pillar of our society, our economy but a European Health Union is not guaranteed Investments in health foster solidarity, inclusion and fight extremism that threatens our democracy

Today at the CD-BIO Committee, our Vice President Pat Clarke, along with EASPD, Mental Health Europe and ENUSP urged further considerations to ensure continuity in the Council of Europe's efforts to promote autonomy in mental healthcare. edf-feph.org/publications/j…

👩‍🦽Deprived of accessible services & denied the right to take decisions about their own bodies, women with #disabilities face abject discrimination on many counts 🔎Here's a recap of our hearing on their #SexualReproductiveHealthRights #SRHRplusD 📰europa.eu/!QwXV4w

Are you a person with disabilities? Have you ever had to access cancer screening, diagnostic or treatment? Help us and HaDEA identify the barriers and improve access to healthcare! Fill out our survey until 8 October: icfconsulting.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0D…

Persons with disabilities face disproportionate barriers to accessing cancer screening, diagnosis and treatment. The EU wants to do something about it - but they need data. If you have a disability, please take 20 minutes to fill out our survey: buff.ly/3Y6ISgU

Today, we launch a report on #LegalCapacity! The report shows that EU countries' laws are leading to horrific abuses of persons with disabilities: enabling sexual abuse, forced treatment such as electroshock therapy and #ForcedSterilisation. Read: buff.ly/3yR8dBi

Pleased to kick off the #34AEC conference on innovating for dementia with Alzheimer Europe Looking forward to sessions on ➡️psychosocial support services ➡️AI and assistive technologies ➡️inclusion strategies for persons with down syndrome, intellectual disabilities & #dementia

The proposed reorganisation of EU health financing will only result in worse health outcomes for persons with disabilities who already experience gross health inequities. 📢Health is a public priority and the budget should reflect that EU One Health European Disability Forum euronews.com/health/2024/10…

Disability organisations welcome the new Recommendations of Council of Europe Bioethics Committee, which move towards a human rights approach to mental healthcare. We now urge Council of Europe to abandon work on the harmful additional protocol to the Oviedo Convention: edf-feph.org/publications/j…

#EPlenary confirms the creation of the standing committee on public health Read the statement of Chair Adam Jarubas 👇 europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-…

The Council of Europe Council of Europe must stop supporting forced treatment and placement in mental healthcare. This undermines #HumanRights and contradicts the UNCRPD. We urge the Parliamentary Assembly to oppose it. Coercion in mental healthcare must end! buff.ly/4jTUVq9

Pleased to participate representing European Disability Forum We look forward to ongoing dialogue and cooperation to promote and protect the rights of persons with disabilities. First up, let's make sure no one is subject to coercion in mental healthcare! #WithdrawOviedo #CoercionIsNotCare

Rehabilitation and habilitation empower persons with disabilities to regain skills and live independently, yet access in the EU remains inconsistent across Member States. We urge action to: ➡️ Collect EU data on unmet needs ➡️ Revise the Patient Mobility Directive ➡️ Ensure

Stop coercion in #MentalHealth care! The draft Additional Protocol to the Oviedo Convention threatens the rights of persons with disabilities. ✋ Say no to involuntary treatment and forced placement in psychiatry. ✋ Say #WithdrawOviedo to the Council of Europe. We urgently need your

'#Poland25EU event on digital services in x-border care has a strong focus on the need to build trust but a lack of inclusion. Patients at the centre panel has no ❌patients ❌analysis of exisiting barriers incl. accessibility of NCPs, digital literacy ❌discussion of rights

Today, our vice-president Pat Clarke reiterated our objections to the draft Additional Protocol to the Oviedo Convention to members of PACE_Social. He called on members to help: - stop coercion in mental health - foster a path to rights-based care