Communication is essential for maintaining one’s health, finding and retaining a job, managing a household, and participating in social activities. March 3, 2015 Today’s communication between most individuals has been substantially enhanced by voice, data,...
The UN Committee will meet with the disability movement in Geneva on Thursday, 2 April, to hear about their concerns over how the EU is implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN CRPD). The EU has ratified the UN...
Commissar Mimica commits to support EU development that is disability-inclusive Representatives of the European Disability Forum (EDF) and the International Disability and Development Consortium (IDDC) met with Mimica, the European Commissioner for International...
In order to see Marianne Thyssen, the European Commissioner for Employment and Social Affairs, the Board of the European Deafblind Network (EDbN) travels to Brussels on March 4, 2015. One of the main topics discussed at the meeting between the board of the European...
After the ‘European Deafblind Indicators’ project was finished, EDbN gave presentations on its findings and goals to each MEP who had previously served on the Disability Intergroup in the European Parliament. We had a backup of 20 of them from the...
The “European Deafblind Indicators project website” was developed by nine deafblind organizations from eight EU member states between September 2012 and September 2014. The European Deafblind Network (EDbN), which comprises each individual project group...
