Flash: EBU wins the Golden Stars Award. See the press release
As part of its long standing commitment to promote the full inclusion of the visually impaired across Europe, the European Blind Union organised the conference “A Citizens’ Europe for All, Disabled People on the Move” in Dublin on 14-17 May 2009.
The Conference addressed citizenship from the perspective of blind,
partially sighted and other disabled Europeans. Representatives from major
European disability organisations discussed equal treatment and non
discrimination in European countries, the ratification of the UN Convention
on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the European Treaty of Lisbon
and the significance of the Disability Vote at the June European Parliament
election.
Conference material is available on this website. You may read about
key-note presentations and round tables on the
programme page;
watch a video and some photographs of the conference on the
overview page; read
or listen to the key-note speeches on the
presentation page;
and read the Dublin
Declaration which proceeds from the Conference.
A special edition of the European Blind Union Newsletter, the Voice of the
Blind and Partially Sighted in Europe, is also available in four languages :
Click on your chosen language : English –
French – German –
Spanish.
The European Blind Union is a non-governmental European organisation
representing, protecting and promoting the interests of blind and
partially-sighted people in Europe. It currently operates within a network
of 45 national members including all 27 EU member states, candidate nations
and other major European countries.
The project is funded by the European Commission’s Europe for Citizens
programme.
