Milan Šveřepa

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has urged member states to “immediately start to transition to the abolition of coercive practices in mental health settings”.

Inclusion Europe agrees with the Council of Europe that we need to protect the human rights of people with intellectual disabilities. But we don't agree with the new changes to the Oviedo Convention.

The “Europe in Action” conference happened from 5-7 June. For the conference, we went to Vilnius. Vilnius is the capital of Lithuania. We talked about independent living for people with intellectual disabilities. And about inclusion.

Inclusion Europe's Secretary-General José Smits gave a summary of "Europe in Action" at the end of the conference. Here you can read the full text of her speech.

José Smits was at our Europe in action conference. She talked about inclusion.

How can we make inclusion happen everywhere, for everyone? We talked about it at this year's Europe in Action conference in Vilnius (Lithuania).

Our annual report talks about our 30th anniversary and our 2018 theme: Empowerment. Read it now!

This time, "Hear our Voices" will take place in Graz in Austria from 18-20 September 2019. The topic is "My voice counts!".

Ahead of the 13th June meeting of the EPSCO Council, we have joined COFACE-Families Europe and 11 other European civil society networks to co-sign a joint letter calling on the national governments to move towards swift transposition of the EU Work-Life Balance Directive.

The European Union has approved the work-life balance directive. It can be very positive for people with intellectual disabilities.