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A European Action Plan for the full integration of disabled people
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The Second European Conference of Ministers Responsible for Integration Policies for People with disabilities adopted on 8 May 2003 the Malaga Ministerial Declaration on People with disabilities ''Progressing towards full participation as citizens''. This Declaration sets the cornerstones for a European Action Plan to be developed in the months to come and to be implemented in the next decade.
 Final declaration
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Programme
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Press releases
Press contacts
Special file “Integration of disabled people
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Malaga: ''Working hand in hand with disabled people''
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More intensive consultation of people with disabilities on the framing of the policies concerning them; mainstreaming new issues such as the situation of women with disabilities or integration of children with disabilities into the ''normal'' school environment: the Malaga Conference set numerous goals which the participants now intend to realise both in their respective countries and in the framework of the Council of Europe. The Council will be given the task of drawing up an ''action plan'' itemising all the recommended measures, and it might be delivered as early as this December. (more…)
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Presentation
Introductory paper
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Walter Schwimmer calls for pan-European think-tank on disability policies
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'’This Conference is an opportunity to take stock, show the way forward, and reflect on disability as a human rights issue,'’ Secretary General Walter Schwimmer told the opening session of the Malaga ministerial conference on integration policies for people with disabilities. He hoped that by 2004 all the Council of Europe member states would be associated with the Council's disability-related activities, culminating in a '’pan-European think-tank for standard setting and policy development'’. (more…)
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Eduardo Zaplana calls for a specific response to the twofold discrimination suffered by women with disabilities
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''I should like to propose that the conclusions of this Conference of Ministers responsible for Integration Policies for People with Disabilities include a recommendation to all Council of Europe member states to adopt specific measures to help women with disabilities, for we need to react differently to the twofold discrimination suffered by them'', in the words of Eduardo Zaplana, Spain's Minister of Labour and Social Affairs, speaking today in Malaga. ''It is my wish that Europe should also serve as a model and a reference for all the other countries in the world where the social integration of persons with disabilities is concerned'', he added.
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NGOs in Malaga to guarantee measures that meet people with disabilities' expectations
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As one of the highlights of the European Year of People with Disabilities, the conference in Malaga will show – at pan-European level – that it is society that must open up towards people with disabilities and not the reverse: they have rights that must be promoted and strengthened. The declarations and recommendations that will be adopted in Malaga by the ministers from the “45” will help the Council of Europe prepare a new action plan focused on people with disabilities’ quality of life and participation in life in society. (more…)
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Interviews
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Vlado Dimovski, Social affairs minister - "Personalised vocational training for people with disabilities in the next three years"
Berit Andnor, Swedish minister for children and the family - “Disabled persons don't just need laws”
Orhan Güvenen, President of the Council of Europe Development Bank –
''22 million euros for the disabled children of Castille-La Manche''
Marie-Thérèse Boisseau, French Secretary of State for Disabled People - ''We must help disabled people to express their talents''
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Speeches
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Walter Schwimmer, Secretary General of the Council of Europe
Peter Schieder, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
Alvaro Gil-Robles, Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe
Professor Orhan Güvenen, Chairman of the Governing Board of the Council of Europe Development Bank
Marie-Thérèse Boisseau, Secretary of State for People with Disabilities, France
Yavuz Mildon, Vice-President of the CLRAE
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Useful links
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Special issue No. 3 / May 2003 : Integration of people with disabilitie Integration of people with Integration of people with disabilities
Website of the European Year of People with Disabilities 2003
Integration of people with disabilities - Council of Europe Website
WHO
European disability forum
European Year of People with Disabilities 2003
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