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European Disability Strategy 2010-2020
Code of Good Practice for the Institutions
United Nations Documents
- United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, “General comment No. 1 on Article 12 of the Convention - Equal Recognition before the Law”, 11 April 2014, document no.: CRPD/C/GC/1
- United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, General comment No. 2 on Article 9 of the Convention – Accessibility, 11 April 2014, document no.: CRPD/C/GC/2
- United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, General comment No. 3 on women and girls with disabilities, 25 November 2016, document no. CRPD/C/GC/3
- United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, “General comment No. 4 (2016) on the right to inclusive education, adopted by the Committee 26 August 2016” document n° CRPD/C/GC/4
- United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, “General comment No. 6 (2018) on equality and non-discrimination”, 26 April 2018, document no. CRPD/C/GC/6
- Initial report of the European Union to the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 3 December 2014
- Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities considers initial report of the European Union, 28 August 2015
- Report of the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, Juan E. Méndez, 15 March 2015, document no. A/HRC/28/68
- Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, “General recommendation No. 35 on gender-based violence against women, updating general recommendation No. 19” (14 July 2017), document no. CEDAW/C/GC/35
- Promoting sexual and reproductive health for persons with disabilities, WHO/UNFPA guidance note, 2009
Council of Europe Documents
- Council of Europe Disability Strategy 2017-2023, 20 November 2016
- European Social Charter, Collected Texts, 7th Edition, 1 January 2015
- Social Inclusion of Children and young people with disabilities, Council of Europe Disability Action plan, 2014
- Abridged Evaluation Report, Implementation of the Council of Europe Plan to promote the rights and full participation of people with disabilities in society: Improving the quality of life of people with disabilities in Europe 2006-2015
- Recommendation Rec (2006) of the Committee of Ministers to member states on the Council of Europe Action Plan to promote the rights and full participation of people with disabilities in society: improving the quality of life of people with disabilities in Europe 2006-2015
- Promoting equality and non-discrimination for persons with disabilities (2017)
- A study on Freedom from exploitation, violence and abuse of persons with disabilities, June 2017
- A study on the Equal Recognition before the law Contribution towards the Council of Europe Strategy on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, March 2017
Reports from the Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA)
- Violence Against Children with Disabilities - legislation, policies and programmes in the EU, December 2015
- From institutions to community living for persons with disabilities: perspectives from the ground, December 2018
- Handbook on European law relating to access to justice, June 2016
- Implementing the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD): An overview of legal reforms in EU Member States
- Equal protection for all victims of hate crime: The case of people with disabilities
- The right to political participation for persons with disabilities: human rights indicators
- Legal capacity of persons with intellectual disabilities and persons with mental health problems: factsheet
- Legal capacity of persons with intellectual disabilities and persons with mental health problems: report
- Inequalities and multiple discrimination in access to and quality of healthcare: factsheet
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
- Studies, reports & papers
- Annual reports
- Study on the Implementation of Article 33 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Europe, Regional Office for Europe of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, 2015
International Labour Organisation (ILO)
- Promoting diversity and inclusion through workplace adjustments: a practical guide
- Guide for business on the rights of persons with disabilities
European Agency for Special Needs and Inclusive Education
- European Agency for Special Needs and Inclusive Education, “Inclusive Early Childhood Education - An analysis of 32 European examples”, 2017
- European Agency for Special Needs and Inclusive Education, Financing of Inclusive Education, Mapping Country Systems for Inclusive Education, 2016
- European Agency for Special Needs and Inclusive Education, Empowering Teachers to Promote Inclusive Education, 2015
- European Agency for Special Needs and Inclusive Education, Guidelines for Accessible Information - ICT for Information Accessibility in Learning, 2015
- European Agency for Special Needs and Inclusive Education, Five Key Messages for Inclusive Education, 2014
European Network of Legal Experts in Gender Equality and Non-discrimination
- European network of legal experts in gender equality and non-discrimination, Reasonable accommodation for disabled people in employment, A legal analysis of the situation in EU Member States, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, 2016
- European network of legal experts in gender equality and non-discrimination, Disability law and reasonable accommodation beyond employment, A legal analysis of the situation in EU Member States
- Study by the European network of legal experts in gender equality and non-discrimination, Mark Bell and Lisa Waddington, “The Employment Equality Directive and supporting people with psychosocial disabilities in the workplace”, 2016
Other
- INFORMATION NOTE from the CJEU on references from national courts for a preliminary ruling 2011/C 160/01
- Communication from the Commission to the Council, the European Parliament and the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions - eAccessibility [SEC(2005)1095]
- Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European economic and social Committee and the Committee of the regions - "Towards an accessible information society" /* COM/2008/0804 final */
- European Standard on accessibility requirements for ICT
- Study on Assessing and Promoting E-Accessibility
- EUROSTAT, “Employment of disabled people Statistical analysis of the 2011 Labour Force Survey ad hoc module”, 2015 edition
- European Parliament, Directorate-General for Internal Policies, Policy Department A: Economic and Scientific Policy, Reasonable Accommodation and Sheltered Workshops for People with Disabilities: Costs and Returns of Investment, Study for the EMPL Committee, January 2015
- Final Report, Study on the socio-economic impact of new measures to improve accessibility of goods and services for people with disabilities, Deloitte, 2014
- EDF analysis of art. 9, 2 Council Directive 2000/78/EC, Evaluating the ‘Defence of rights’ under the Employment Directive, April 2013
- How to Conduct a Disability Impact Assessment – Guidelines for Government Departments
- European Agency for Special Needs and Inclusive Education, country information
- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, Persons with Disabilities and Ensuring their Right to Participate in Political and Public Life, 13 September 2017
- Ending forced sterilisation of women and girls with disabilities, European Disability Forum, News, 5 December 2017
- Good Practices for Accessible Elections in Europe, Inclusion Europe, May 2011
- Study by the European network of legal experts in gender equality and non-discrimination, Mark Bell and Lisa Waddington, “The Employment Equality Directive and supporting people with psychosocial disabilities in the workplace”, 2016
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