After a brief illness, Peggy Freeman, MBE, tragically passed away over the weekend in a hospital in Nottingham. Peggy, who is now 94 years old, was one of the parents who helped create the National Deafblind and Rubella Association, which went on to become the...
EDbN is a member of EDF (European Disability Forum) which is a European level organisation campaigning for the rights of all disabled people in the European Union. EDF has just launched a campaign to collect 1 million signatures to combat discrimination in all aspects...
Lucy Drescher reports on her work joining friends and colleagues across Europe that led to this ground-breaking decision! A historic Written Declaration on the rights of deafblind people was formally adopted by the European Parliament on 1 st April, 2004. This was the...
Semi-structured interview with deafblind people and family members There are at least 150,000 deafblind citizens livings in the European Union. The personal testimony which forms the basis of this report, reveals a group of people who count as amongst the most...
