community living

2 March 2012, Budapest (Hungary) and London (UK). The UK’s reputation as a country which empowers people with disabilities is “in jeopardy” following an in-depth Parliamentary inquiry.

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 proceedings and at the ECtHR.

23 September 2011. Human rights organisations are calling on the Hungarian government to consult civil society in relation to the effective implementation of the recommendations formulated by the UN Human Rights Council during Hungary’s Universal Periodic Review.

29 March 2011, St. Petersburg and Moscow (Russia) and Budapest (Hungary). The Russian Constitutional Court has ruled that the State cannot institutionalise a person with disabilities if there is no one who can become their guardian in the community.

Budapest, 14 January 2011. MDAC and other NGOs urge Hungarian government to have a proper discussion about how to use EU funding to get 23,000 people with disabilities out of institutions, and develop services in the community. For more information please click here.

Budapest, 13 December 2010 - MDAC’s Executive Director Oliver Lewis has written an opinion piece calling for European governments to end the institutionalisation of children with intellectual disabilities. You can read the article in English, Spanish, German, Chinese and Arabic here

Budapest, 21 October 2010. Today in a formal “comment”, the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Thomas Hammerberg, called for an end to inhuman treatment of persons with disabilities.

• Providing supported decision-making for the approximately 80,000 people under guardianship;