The project aims to improve the legal and institutional framework for the protection of the rights of people with intellectual and psychosocial disabilities and their right to live independently in the community; Improve respect for the right to health for the most vulnerable groups, people with intellectual and psychosocial disabilities (people living in institutions, deprived of liberty or in rural, isolated areas); Develop the capacity of public actors in administration, justice and civil society to act for the protection of the fundamental rights of people with disabilities.
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The right to dignity of persons with disabilities is a fundamental right, valid 365 days a year 3.12.2022 - Uncertainty, newness, hope - a few words that sum up the year 2022 for people with disabilities. But we hope that we are talking about changes that will have a timely impact on the estimated 100,000 people with intellectual and psychosocial disabilities.
More money wasted on bogus deinstitutionalisation! – Request to CES on the amendment of HG 798/2016 10.05.2022 - UPDATE: Following the intervention of the Centre for Legal Resources this morning, the Economic and Social Council – ESC Romania has decided to postpone its opinion on the Government Decision amending the Annex to Government Decision no. 798/2016 on the approval of the programme of national interest in the field of protection and promotion of...
The CLR submitted a shadow report to the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on the implementation of the CRPD in the European Union 3.03.2022 - On 14 February 2022, the Centre for Legal Resources submitted to the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities its first progress report on the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) in the European Union (EU). The aim of the report is to analyse how the EU...
WHERE ARE THE EUROPEAN FUNDS FOR THE DEINSTITUTIONALIZATION OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES? 25.10.2021 - After almost 4 years, Romania has spent less than 4 million Euros out of the approximately 38 million Euros initially allocated for the deinstitutionalization of only 604 people with disabilities confined in residential facilities under the control of the Romanian General Directorates for Social Assistance and Child Protection. We urge the Romanian Government and the...
“What did the big people in the room say?”. Strugurel Matei was released. 8.10.2021 - UPDATE 03.03.2022: The Buzău Court also rejected the Public Prosecutor’s appeal against the Buzău Court’s decision to annul the criminal prosecution acts carried out by the criminal investigation bodies and sent the case back to the Public Prosecutor’s Office. UPDATE 20 January 2022: The Buzău Court finds that the documents submitted by the Public Prosecutor’s...
How do you answer when you don’t want to answer… 22.09.2021 - UPDATE: The Ministry of European Investment and Projects confirms in its latest response what the CRJ has warned in all its requests and position papers: the Commission will not accept the construction of sheltered housing. MIPE: “the measure has not been included in the updated version of the POIDS, following the negative opinion from the...
European funds used for illegal and ineffective measures to deinstitutionalize persons with disabilities – public appeal to Minister, Mr. Cristian Ghinea 3.09.2021 - UPDATE 2.11.2021: After countless addresses and the submission of a prior complaint to the Prime Minister’s Office, The Ministry of European Investments and Projects (MIPE) confirms what CLR has warned about in all its requests and position papers: “the Commission will not accept the construction of sheltered housing and small group family homes”. CLR Requests/observations:➢...