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2020
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March
- Regarding the lack of accessibility of information and communication in International Sign of the EU’s response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.
- An update on the Common Provisions Regulation 2021-2027
- Adoption of the Resolution on the EU disability strategy post 2020 by the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs of the European Parliament
- The webinar on the transposition of the revised Audio-Visual Media Services Directive (AVMSD)
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February
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2019
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December
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November
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October
- Public Hearing on Shaping the EU Agenda for Disability Rights 2020-2030
- Reminder to fill in the evaluation of the European Disability Strategy 2010 – 2020: lack of responses & extension of the deadline!
- EUD encourages National Associations of the Deaf to advocate for the nomination of deaf candidates for the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities elections
- Evaluation of the European Disability Strategy - Online Survey
- High Level Meeting on Disability
- Third Civil Society Seminar on “Strengthening the involvement of civil society in the European Semester”
- End-users workshop
- Digitalisation, SDGs and the future of work: addressing tomorrow's skills and jobs challenges
- Hearing of the Commissioner-designate Helena Dalli
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September
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July
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June
- 12th Session of the Conference of States Parties (COSP) to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at the United Nations
- Webinar explaining the recently adopted European Accessibility Act
- EUD at the Conference of States Parties (COSP) to the UN CRPD
- Towards the 1st European Standard on Accessibility of the Built Environment
- EUD at the Annual General Assembly of the European Disability Forum
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May
- Annual convention for inclusive growth 2019 and the side event organised by EUD, EDF, Inclusion Europe and EAPN
- EUD’s 33rd General Assembly in Bucharest, Romania
- EUD & ANSR Seminar in Bucharest, Romania
- EUD workshop in Bucharest, Romania
- EU Disability High Level Group meeting
- 2019 Work Forum on the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the EU and its Member States
- Training by the European Academy of Law (ERA) on Disability and Non-Discrimination in the European Union, in Trier, Germany
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April
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March
- Country experience on disability data collection
- Ageing and Disability event jointly organised by the European Association of Service providers for Persons with Disabilities (EASPD) and the European Co-operation in Anthroposophical Curative Education (ECCE)
- ‘Flanders & Catalonia: comparisons and differences with regard to the status of Sign Language’
- Regional Forum on Sustainable Development for the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Region
- Do not take my spot! – The EU Disability Parking Card
- Disability Intergroup: Political Participation Seminar
- The meeting of the European Platform of Deafness, Hard of Hearing and Deafblindness
- European Accessibility Act: final steps on the European level – first steps on the national level
- EUD's first board meeting of 2019 in Nicosia, Cyprus
- Webinar on Key messages to be delivered at HLPF 2019 on behalf of the Stakeholder Group of Persons with Disabilities
- Strategic Dialogue on the European Semester and Country Reports
- Strategic Dialogue Meeting on Integration of migrants in the EU
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February
- Towards a more inclusive European Semester
- Huawei's DigitALL 2019 Chinese New Year Reception
- Strategic Dialogue Meeting on the Annual Convention for Inclusive Growth 2019
- Sustainable Europe by 2030
- Revised Audiovisual Media Service Directive is formally adopted – period of transposition into national laws has started!
- European Emergency Number 112 Day
- EU action towards achieving the 2030 Agenda for SDGs
- European Parliament adopted an encouraging position on the European Social Fund+ (ESF+) post 2020
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2018
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December
- EUD Board meeting in Sofia, Bulgaria
- European Day of Persons with Disabilities 2018
- European Pillar of Social Rights and European Semester: tools for delivering Social Europe – a reflection with civil society
- Making the Digital Single Market accessible for persons with disabilities
- Access to sign language and sign language environments is a necessity for deaf seniors living in retirement homes!
- Making the European Disability Card a Reality
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November
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October
- The meeting of European Platform of Deafness, Hard of Hearing and Deafblindness (the Platform) took place in Brussels on 24th October.
- 1st Deaf Women European Forum in Valencia, Spain
- Public hearing on the Justice, Rights and Values (JRV) Fund at the European Economic Social Committee
- Public hearing on European Regional Development and Cohesion Policy at the European Economic Social Committee (EESC)
- EUD's General Assembly in Vienna, Austria
- EUD & ÖGLB Joint Seminar in Vienna, Austria
- EUD Workshop in Vienna, Austria
- 60th anniversary of World Federation of the Deaf in Rome, Italy
- 80 years anniversary of Lithuanian Deaf Association
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September
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July
- European Union of the Deaf Youth held their annual General Assembly in Constanta, Romania
- Next steps toward an EU action plan to implement the 2030 Agenda
- Persons with disabilities as a human capital: their contribution to the economy and society
- Sustainable Development Goals vs European Pillar of Social Rights? Making two frameworks work together
- Political agreement on new EU telecommunication rules with better provisions for consumers with disabilities
- Political agreement on the Audiovisual Media Service Directive revision with stronger provisions on accessibility of media services for deaf consumers
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June
- Designs project in Berlin, Germany
- EUD Board meeting in Prague, the Czech Republic
- ‘Alone We Can Do So Little, Together We Can Do So Much’ by European Deafblind Union
- Work Forum on the implementation of the UN Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities
- Strategic Dialogue on EU semester
- ‘Developing Deaf Interpreting’ conference in Hamburg, Germany.
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May
- EDF's Annual General Assembly in Vilnius, Lithuania
- The Impact of Media on Sport, Disability & Human Rights
- Annual Convention for Inclusive Growth 2018
- Presentation of the report "Assistive technologies for people with disabilities"
- Joint statement on the need for end-to-end emergency service accessibility in the European Accessibility Act
- Disability Data and the Sustainable Development Goals
- The Social Pillar and European Semester as tools for delivering social Europe - a reflection with civil society
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April
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March
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February
- ACT! (Accessible Communication Today!) by European Platform and Microsoft
- Coproducing employment initiatives for young persons with disabilities and mental health problems
- The High-Level Task Force (HLTF) on Investing in Social Infrastructure
- A cooperation meeting between the European Union of the Deaf (EUD) and the World Federation of the Deaf (WFD) took place in Helsinki, Finland
- Flemish Parliament’s hearing addressing the idea of creating a ’Two language education system via Flemish Sign Language and Dutch’.
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January
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2017
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December
- Addressing the inclusion of persons with disabilities in humanitarian actions A European perspective
- "Artificial Intelligence for Accessibility - Stories from the Field" by EDF & Google
- A thematic meeting on 'Political parties and participation of persons with disabilities', hosted by EDF, Disability Intergroup, ODIHR and MEP Helga Stevens.
- Ending Forced Sterilisation of Women and Girls with Disabilities
- Reviewing the 2014 - 2020 ESIF Regulations in favour of persons with disabilities and their representative organisations
- 4th European Parliament of Persons with Disabilities
- European Day of the Persons with Disabilities
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November
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October
- The situation and rights of women with disabilities
- PETI Workshop on the Protection of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- Monitoring of the implementation of Sustainable Development Goals
- Concluding observations of the UN CRPD Committee to the European Union should be reflected in a new European Disability Strategy
- Report on the implementation of the EU Disability Strategy
- ENIL Freedom Drive 2017
- The impact of the social dimension and the European Pillar of Social Rights (EPSR) on the Future of the European Union
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September
- Happy European Day of Languages
- Plenary vote results have weakened the proposed European Accessibility Act
- Interview with MEP Morten Løkkegaard
- Day of plenary vote on the EAA
- Update on European Accessibility Act
- EUD had granted special consultative status with the United Nations.
- Board Meeting in Brussels/Ghent, Belgium
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August
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July
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June
- Access City Award 2018 is now launched!
- 2017 Annual Convention for Inclusive Growth
- A public hearing on equal treatment in employment and occupation
- “The inclusion of persons with disabilities in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by the European Union”
- Real rights of persons with disabilities to vote in European Parliament elections
- Workshop on Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction
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May
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April
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March
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February
- Our next General Assembly will be taking place in Valletta, Malta
- Launch of new EUD Gender Equality working group
- Demonstration: Accessibility? Act!
- EESC hearing on the situation of refugees and migrants with disabilities
- European Emergency Number Association (EENA)'s workshop on the European emergency number 112 and the electronic communications code directive
- Board Meeting in Rovaniemi, Finland
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January
- European Accessibility Act conference hosted by EDF and Disability Intergroup
- European Pillar of Social Rights conference 2017
- Seminar on "Inclusive education for learners with disabilities"
- Election of the European Parliament president
- Exclusive interview with the candidate for the presidency of the European Parliament, MEP Helga Stevens.
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2016
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December
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November
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October
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September
- Multilingualism and equal rights in the EU: the role of sign languages
- EUD Board and Staff visits Bratislava, Slovakia
- Civil Society Hearing on progress made in the EU on the rights of persons with disabilities
- EUD board meeting in Slovakia
- Debate of the adoption process of the European Accessibility Act by the European Parliament
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August
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July
- European Parliament’s CULT committee vote on opinion threatens future accessibility of TV & e-books
- Proposed Audio-visual media services directive not to contain article on accessibility
- Clear majority of Members of the European Parliament adopts resolution on the implementation of the UNCRPD by the EU
- “Building Social Good” - Facebook conference
- Adoption of the final version of the report on the implementation of the UNCRPD, with special regard to the Concluding Observations for the EU
- "Disability Thematic Network Forum for Inclusion” with the title "Leveraging the European Accessibility Act to promote change"
- ‘The Future of Accessibility – Through the Lens of Technology, Policy and Economics’
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June
- Brexit
- Conference on "The situation of fundamental rights in the European Union in 2015"
- Meeting by AGE Platform on elder abuse in health and long-term care.
- Development of a European pillar of social rights and on inclusive growth
- High Level Group disability meeting
- Consolidating the ground for implementation: 10 years after the UNCRPD
- Launch of the 2017 edition of the European Award for Accessible Cities
- Meeting with Marianne Thyssen, Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion
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May
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April
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March
- #CRPD15
- #BrusselsAttacks
- Annual Convention for Inclusive Growth 2016
- The Maltese Parliament approved the Bill declaring that the Maltese Sign Language is to be considered an official language of Malta
- European Parliament's report on the Concluding Observations from the UNCRPD Committee
- New chair of the International Disability Alliance (IDA)
- Ongoing negotiations on the Web Accessibility Directive
- Launch of Handbook ‘Different. Just like you. A psychosocial approach promoting the rights of persons with disabilities’
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February
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2015
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December
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November
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October
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September
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August
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July
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June
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2014
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December
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November
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October
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September
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August
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July
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June
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January
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2013
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December
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November
- Update on European Elections campaign
- Citizens Hour
- Christine Linnartz, a Deaf MEP Candidate
- World Toilet Day
- International Day for Tolerance (Video unavailable)
- An update on two MEPs' signing
- European Accessibility Act
- World Science Day
- Congratulations, Danish Deaf Association!
- You are invited to the European Parliament!
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October
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September
- International Week of the Deaf
- International Right To Know Day
- Passing Away of Arthur Verney
- Impressions from Lithuania
- EUD – Lithuanian NAD Seminar in Lithuania
- EUD welcomes the new efsli president
- EUD receives a donation of 4,500 euros
- 10th UNCRPD Session, Geneva
- European Parliament report on 5th September
- EUD reopens its external communication
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July
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June
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May
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April
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February
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2012
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December
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November
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October
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September
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August
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July
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May
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April
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February
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January
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2011
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December
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November
- EUD Accessibility Working Group Meeting
- European Co-operation Meeting
- WD112 Interview
- EUD WD112 Press Release
- WFD/EUD Press Release
- News from the WFD/EUD Conference
- Summary of the WFD/EUD Conference
- WFD & EUD Press Release
- Parlamentarium
- Kósá Mobility Report
- Written Declaration Lobby
- Written Declaration
- Brussels Declaration
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