27 January 2012, Budapest. MDAC welcomes the election of Nils Muižnieks as the third Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights. At their plenary session in Strasbourg on Tuesday, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe elected Mr Muižnieks for a non-renewable term of six years starting on 1 April 2012. Mr Muižnieks is a member of the European Commission against Racism and...»
17 January 2012, Budapest and Sofia. The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) today delivered a landmark victory for the rights of persons with psycho-social disabilities and intellectual disabilities in the case of Stanev v. Bulgaria. The Mental Disability Advocacy Center and the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee represented Mr. Stanev in his attempts to bring domestic...»
In a victory for the rights of persons deprived of legal capacity and placed in institutions by their guardians, the Czech Ombudsman issued an opinion in a case brought by MDAC and its partner organisation in the Czech Republic stating that this practice violates human rights.
Thirty-five thousand people in the Czech Republic are deprived of their legal capacity and denied the right to...»
