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FRA publications on disability – an overview

13/09/2011 -

The FRA disability project, aims to better understand how the fundamental rights of persons with mental health problems and persons with intellectual disabilities are safeguarded in the EU and where violations of rights occur.

To better explain what the agency is doing in this area, the FRA has developed a series of easy-to-understand information products.


 

 

 FRA Easy read products


Easy read booklet: What is the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights? (in English)


This factsheet gives an overview about the FRA and its work in easy read English.

Easy read report: The right to political participation of persons with mental health problems and persons with intellectual disabilities (in English) 

This report describes the rights of people with mental health problems and people with intellectual disabilities to vote and to take part in politics in Europe.

Easy read presentation: The rights of people with intellectual disabilities and people with mental health problems - project overview (in English)

This presentation describes FRA's project to ensure that people with intellectual disabilities and people with mental health problems can enjoy their rights just as everyone else.


 

 

Cover of the Factsheet on key rights of persons with disabilitiesFactsheet - Key rights of persons with disabilities: an introduction

This factsheet describes some of the existing rights of people with disabilities, as set out under the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). The factsheet focuses in particular on ending discrimination, equal recognition by law, access to justice, the prevention of inhumane treatments, independent living and the right to political participation.



 
Download: EN - BG - DE - EL - FR - HU - LV - RO - SV


The FRA disability project postcardThe FRA disability project postcard

Under the CRPD, people with disabilities are no longer being considered as being unable to play an active role in society. Instead of people with disabilities being viewed as the problems, the barriers they face are clearly recognised as being the source of the problem. FRA calls this approach the enabling model of disability. This highly visual postcard illustrates the two opposing views with easily understandable examples.

Download: EN - BG - CS - DA - DE - ET - EL - ES - FR - IT - LV - LT - HU - NL - PL - PT - RO - SK - FI - SV


The FRA disability project posterThe FRA disability project poster

This poster introduces the work of the FRA disability project. It gives a brief overview of what the project is doing and who it is working with and why.


 


Download: EN


Cover of the Factsheet on persons with disabilitiesThe FRA disability project factsheet: The Fundamental Rights of persons with intellectual disabilities and persons with mental health problems

This factsheet delves deeper into the aims and objectives of the project. It explains the policy context behind the research while outlining some of the key issues that are being tackled and how they will be addressed.


 

Download: EN - BG - DA - DE - EL - FR - HU - RO - SV


Cover of the publication: the right to political participation of persons with mental health problems and persons with intellectual disabilitiesThe right to political participation of persons with mental health problems and persons with intellectual disabilities

This report provides the first results from a legal study carried out by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) in the context of its project on the "Fundamental rights of persons with intellectual disabilities and persons with mental health problems".




Download: EN - FR - DE
Translations: EN - BG - CS - DA - ET - EL - HR - IT - LV - LT - HU - NL - PL - PT - RO - SK - SL - FI - SV
Easy read: EN 


The legal protection of persons with mental health problems under non-discrimination lawThe legal protection of persons with mental health problems under non-discrimination law

The report examines how disability is defined in international and European law and then explores the obligation to provide reasonable accommodation as contained in international and European standards.

 

Download: EN


Document(s)
  • Key rights of persons with disabilities: an introduction  EnglishБългарски Deutschελληνικάfrançaislatviešu valodamagyarromânĿsvenska  application/pdf (PDF File 382 KB)
  • Promotional postcard of the FRA disabilities project  EnglishБългарски ĿeštinadanskDeutscheesti keelελληνικάespañolfrançaisitalianolatviešu valodalietuvių kalbamagyarNederlandspolskiportuguêsromânĿslovenĿinasuomisvenska  application/pdf (PDF File 535 KB)
  • FRA Disabilities poster  English  application/pdf (PDF File 833 KB)
  • The fundamental rights of persons with intellectual disabilities and persons with mental health problems  EnglishБългарски danskDeutschελληνικάfrançaismagyarromânĿsvenska  application/pdf (PDF File 141 KB)
  • FRA report: The right to political participation of persons with mental health problems and persons with intellectual disabilities   EnglishDeutschfrançais  application/pdf (PDF File 409 KB)
  • EASY READ: The rights of people with mental health problems and intellectual disabilities to take part in politics  English  application/pdf (PDF File 927 KB)
  • EASY READ: What is the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights?  English  application/pdf (PDF File 655 KB)
  • The legal protection of persons with mental health problems under non-discrimination law  EnglishdanskDeutschfrançais  application/pdf (PDF File 825 KB)