Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-09-03-Speech-3-120"
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The 'European Year of People with Disabilities' raises awareness of the concerns of over 40 million people in the EU with disabilities. Without being complacent, we have established some protection for EU citizens.
It is also important that the EU leads the way in establishing fundamental rights for the approximately 660 million people world-wide who have some form of disability – almost 10% of the planet's population. Many people with disabilities face discrimination, maltreatment and institutional confinement.
Europe should be sending a message beyond its borders that inhuman or degrading treatment of people with disabilities is utterly unacceptable.
10 years ago the UN adopted its Standard Rules for people with disabilities. This is not a legally-binding document. It is now clear that the rights of people with disabilities internationally should now be protected by a legally enforceable UN Convention. This must cover the right to quality of life, to access to employment, education and training, the right to inclusion, civil and political rights, to financial support, to healthcare, to culture and leisure and the right to equal treatment before the law. The EU must take the lead in the UN and must pursue these goals through EU development cooperation."@en1
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