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Disabled people have a right to live in the community

  • Dec 3, 2012
  • 1 min read

Updated: Nov 21, 2018

03.12.2012📷

Several Central and Eastern European countries like Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia have invested tens of millions of euros in structural funds to build and/or renovate long-stay institutions for people with disabilities instead of supporting community-based alternatives, which safeguard human rights and are more cost-effective.


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Article written by Judith Klein, Director of the Mental Health Initiative, Open Society Foundations http://euobserver.com/disability/118389

 
 
 

European Expert Group

  • Nov 21, 2012
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On the Transition from Institutional to Community-based Care

21.11.2012

📷 European Expert Group has launched its Guidelines and Toolkit on the Transition from Institutional to Community Care - a great resource that provides guidance to member states on how to make the desperately needed reforms so that European citizens with disabilities can live as equal citizens!

 
 
 
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