The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and GANHRI are pleased to invite all NHRIs to a meeting on persons with disabilities and COVID-19 to share experiences, practices, challenges and gaps in protecting and promoting the rights of persons with disabilities during the pandemic. The meeting will take place on 19 August 2020 from 14h40 to 16h00 (CET). Registration...

The youth of today can help shape a fundamental rights-compliant Europe of tomorrow. From climate change to social injustice, many young people are mobilising to bring about change. On International Youth Day on 12 August, FRA calls on the EU and its Member States to build on this momentum to engage and work with young people...

Buckinghamshire County Council has agreed to look at the transport it has available to take children with Special Educational Needs to school, after it left one mother out of pocket when she had no alternative but to take her child to school every day. The Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman was asked to investigate a mother’s complaint after she was only paid for two legs of her daily journeys to her child’s special school when Buckinghamshire council told her it did not have the right transport, because...

London Borough of Barking and Dagenham has agreed to review the way it assesses applications for the disabled ‘Blue Badge’ parking scheme after the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman found numerous failings in the way the council was running the scheme. A complaint about the way an application was rejected by the council was raised with the Ombudsman by a man who has hearing impairment, after the council did not review his application when he...

Monsieur le Président du Parlement de la République d’Albanie.

Chers députés du Parlement de la République d’Albanie !

C’est un plaisir pour moi de voir les représentants du peuple qui, par l’intérêt qu’ils portent à la présentation du rapport annuel du médiateur, montrent leur engagement en faveur de la protection des droits de l’Homme.

Nous vivons des temps difficiles. Mais il existe des situations spécifiques qui aident les gens à oublier les divisions et à resserrer les rangs, à ignorer les différences et à mettre l’accent sur les points communs...