About Us
EDF - European Disability Forum



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EDF represents the interests of 37 million disabled citizens. Our mission is to advance disabled people’s human rights and promote equal opportunities in EU policies in accordance with the principle of non-discrimination.

Structure:

EDF's members include 67 organisations working at European level, 23 organisations on national, regional and local level, representing different impairment groups, and 17 National Councils representing the national disability movement from each European Economic Area member state and 32 individual members. A Brussels based secretariat supports the membership.

Aims:

The aim of EDF is to promote disabled people's human rights and equal opportunities and to combat discrimination and social exclusion in all EU policies in accordance with the principle of mainstreaming and a social model of disability.

EDF aims to increase the visibility of the 10% of the population with different types of impairments and to encourage the participation of disabled people's representative organisations in civil dialogue at all levels in particular with the EU institutions and other international organisations.

The ultimate goal for the EDF is a society without barriers to the participation of disabled people in all aspects of life both economic or social.

Activities:
EDF campaigns for policy change and plays a key role in information exchange within the European disability movement.
Our campaigns focus on:
  • strengthening non-discrimination legislation, in employment and other areas of Community competence according to the principle of mainstreaming
  • equal opportunities for disabled people in employment and education
  • fundamental rights and civil dialogue to be strengthened in the treaties
  • enlargement process to include social policies including disability
  • human rights and bio-ethics
  • multiple discrimination and under- represented groups
  • universal access, including transport and the information society
  • older people
  • social protection

Contacts

Carlotta Besozzi, Director
European Disability Forum (EDF)
Rue du Commerce 39-41
B-1000 Brussels
BELGIUM

Telephone: +32-2-282.46.00
Fax: +32-2-282.46.09

E-mail: info@edf-feph.org

URL: http://www.edf-feph.org/