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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> European Disability Forum [mailto:andre.felix=edf-feph.org@mail65.atl91.mcsv.net]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>European Disability Forum<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, 1 June 2018 12:20 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Setareki Macanawai <CEO@pacificdisability.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> A Europe for all its people - European disability movement demands that “nothing about us without us” becomes reality<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h1 align="center" style="text-align:center"><strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">A Europe for all its people</span></strong><o:p></o:p></h1>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:125%"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#111111">The European Disability Movement gathers in Lithuania to demand a decent standard of living
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<h1><strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">European disability movement demands that “nothing about us without us” becomes reality.</span></strong><o:p></o:p></h1>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:125%"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#111111">The General Assembly of the European Disability Forum took place in Vilnius, Lithuania on May 26th
and 27th, co-organised and co-hosted by EDF and the Lithuanian Disability Forum. The Assembly brought together over 150 delegates from across Europe in Vilnius, Lithuania, this weekend. The conclusion was clear: European and national authorities need to do
more to meaningfully involve persons with disabilities and the organisations that represent them.<br>
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The Assembly opened with a strong call for political participation of persons with disabilities in the European elections. All persons with disabilities should have the right to vote and should be able to vote. Persons with disabilities should stand for election,
and be elected, to ensure that their issues are central to the political decision- making process in Europe.<br>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Yannis Vardakastanis</span></strong>, President of the European Disability Forum proclaimed that “We need to vote. We need to keep the European project in our hands. Persons with disabilities and their
families must vote. Candidates with disabilities must stand for election.”<br>
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The General Assembly included a meeting between the European Disability Forum, Lithuanian Disability Forum and the national authorities; a conference on the implementation of the Web Accessibility Directive” and discussions on disability assessment, the European
Pillar of Social Rights, the future of EU structural funds and the European Accessibility Act.<br>
EDF members also had the opportunity to discuss with the CRPD Committee rapporteur Stig Langvad on the drafting of the general comment no. 7, and stressed the need for organisations of persons with disabilities to be fully involved and closely consulted in
all spaces of public decision making on an equal basis of others.<br>
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On the 25th May, the European Disability Forum and the Lithuanian Disability Forum met with Linas Kukuraitis, the Minister for Social Security and Labour of Lithuania. We held an extensive discussion on the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights
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Yannis Vardakastanis, President of the European Disability Forum, emphasised the importance of involving organisations of persons with disabilities in all aspects of implementation and monitoring of the Convention. The importance of building the capacity of
the national disability movements and of ensuring cooperation between organisations of persons with disabilities across Europe were also discussed.<br>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Yannis Vardakastanis</span></strong> stated “Countries need to ensure proper support for their national disability movement. This is an essential obligation to fully implement of the UN Convention on the
Rights of Persons with Disabilities.”<br>
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<h1><strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Time to make sure that the Web Accessibility Directive becomes a reality.
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Delegates discussed the web accessibility directive with <strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Marco Marsella</span></strong>, Head of Unit G3 in the Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology of the European Commission,
and<strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> Shadi Abou-Zahra</span></strong>, Strategy and Technology Specialist Web Accessibility Initiative at the World Wide Web Consortium.<br>
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The meeting was preceded by a statement from the Commissioner Mariya Gabriel, EU Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society, which highlighted the importance of this directive on creating inclusive digital technologies.<br>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Marco Marsella </span></strong>insisted on the importance of involving all stakeholders in the transposition of the Directive to national law. He assured Delegates that the European Commission will closely
review the national laws and challenge them if they are not according to the spirit and letter of the Directive.<br>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Shadi Abou-Zahra </span></strong>underlined that not only the websites need to be accessible – the tools that are used to create them have to be accessible as well.<br>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Alejandro Moledo </span></strong>concluded that “organisations of persons with disabilities have to act now to ensure that the Directive is correctly transposed. We have to contact our governments and demand
to be fully involved.”<br>
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Case studies from Denmark, Slovenia, Spain and Lithuania highlighted that involvement of organisations of persons with disabilities is necessary to make the process of transposition easier, better and more cost-efficient for national governments. They also
explained their advocacy actions so far to ensure that the Directive was transposed in the most ambitious way possible, including the widest scope, and no loopholes.<br>
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Delegates appreciated the recommendations for transposition in the <a href="https://edf-feph.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=865a5bbea1086c57a41cc876d&id=1d6e627420&e=e718b3dd39">
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budget to be increased and to ensure that the needs of persons with disabilities are always taken into account in all projects that are funded by the EU.<br>
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It is also essential that structural funds support accessibility for persons with disabilities and the implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights.<br>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Yannis Vardakastanis</span></strong>, President of the European Disability Forum declared that: “The budget of the European Union must not produce anymore exclusion. The European disability movement will
take to the streets to guarantee this, if we have to!”<br>
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The General Assembly approved a resolution on the future of the Cohesion Policy 2021-2027.<br>
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<h1><strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Disability Assessment should never be a tool to cut disability benefits.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:125%"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#111111">Worrying trends on disability assessment across Europe were displayed during presentations of case
studies from Lithuania, Portugal and Croatia. Lack of proper support, lack of individual assessment and focus on a medical model of disability, among others, lead to discrimination, increased risk of poverty, and health issues due to stress and anxiety.<br>
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“It is clear that the European disability movement has to be more involved in the process of disability assessment” said
<strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Yannis Vardakastanis. Rodolfo Cattani</span></strong>, Executive Committee member added that “Disability Assessment is a priority for EDF. We have to ensure that changes are made in accordance with the
UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the full protection of disability benefits.”<br>
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Disability assessment should be as objective as possible, ensuring the respect and dignity of persons with disabilities.<br>
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<h1><strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">It is urgent to adopt a strong, meaningful European Accessibility Act
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We demand the Act to: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Support the accessibility provisions of other Union acts, such as the Public Procurement Directive or the EU Funds Regulations,<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#111111;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify;line-height:125%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">include a compulsory clause on the accessibility of the built environment,<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#111111;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify;line-height:125%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%">
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">cover all microenterprises,<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#111111;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify;line-height:125%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">to cover transport services broadly,<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#111111;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify;line-height:125%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%">
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">ensure that audiovisual media services and the access to the latter can benefit from common accessibility requirements<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:125%"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#111111">The resolution also includes the demand to adopt a horizontal principle on promotion of equality
between men and women, accessibility for persons with disabilities and non-discrimination in the Structural and Investment Funds Common Provisions Regulation 2021-2027.<br>
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<h1><strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Þuríður Harpa Sigurðardóttir elected as board member of the European Disability Forum
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Assemblu elected Þuríður Harpa Sigurðardóttir, the Chair of the Organisation of Disabled in Iceland, (ÖBÍ Öryrkjabandalag Íslands) as a new member of the Board.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:125%"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#111111">The General Assembly concluded with an intervention of Kamil Goungor the new chair of the European
Disability Forum’s Youth Committee. In it he stressed that young persons with disabilities face double discrimination.<br>
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He stated “It is difficult for a person with a disability to be employed. But it is twice as difficult if you are young and disabled.”<br>
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EDF has committed to greatly increase the visibility and the impact of youth within its work.<br>
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The next General Assembly is provisionally set for 1<sup>st</sup> and 2<sup>nd</sup> June 2019.<br>
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<h1>Note to editors<o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:125%"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#111111">The
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<span style="color:#0477B3">European Disability Forum</span></a> is an independent NGO that defends the interests of 80 million Europeans with disabilities. EDF is a unique platform which brings together representative organisations of persons with disabilities
from across Europe. It is run by persons with disabilities and their families. EDF is a strong, united voice of persons with disabilities in Europe.<br>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">André Félix</span></strong><br>
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