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Reporters and Partner NGOsBulgaria Slavka Kukova has been involved in several projects with the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee, monitoring social care homes and schools for children and adults with mental disabilities. She has also participated in projects examining the conditions in psychiatric care facilities and prisons. Slavka has a Masters of Law from Sofia University. Partner NGOs: Open Society Institute - Sofia and the Bulgarian Association for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities (BAPID) Croatia Ljiljana Pintarić Mlinar is currently working as an education specialist and teacher with the Faculty of Special Education at the University of Zagreb. She has worked extensively with people with intellectual disabilities, and is presently participating in a project focused on improving employment opportunities for people with special needs. Ljiljana holds a Master’s degree in special education and rehabilitation sciences. Partner NGO: Association for Promoting Inclusion, Croatia Czech Republic Jan Šiška is a lecturer and doctoral research fellow in intellectual disabilities studies at Charles University in Prague. He has served as a consultant to the Czech branch of Inclusion Europe, and as the deputy head of an NGO providing supported living services to people with intellectual disabilities. He also worked as an expert in the Ministry of Labour’s department of social services. Jan received his MA from the faculty of education at Charles University. Partner NGO: Inclusion Czech Republic (SPMP) Estonia Agne Raudmees has been working with the Estonian Mentally Disabled Support Organisation since 1998, and is presently serving as its chairwoman. She contributed to the country report ''Human Rights of Persons with Intellectual Disability'' in 2001-2002. In May 2003 Agne was a project manager for the international congress ''Human Rights of Intellectually Disabled People''. Partner NGOs: Open Estonia Foundation and the Estonian Mentally Disabled People Support Organization (EVPIT) Greece Partner NGOs: Association for the Psychosocial Health of Children and Adolescents Hungary Emese Kovago is currently the co-ordinator of the Model Site project with the Salva Vita Foundation in Budapest, an organisation facilitating employment for people with intellectual disabilities. Emese has completed research on human rights in Serbia and Montenegro, and served as a volunteer with Amnesty International. She received her Master’s degree in political science from Central European University in Budapest. Partner NGO: Salva Vita Foundation, Hungary Latvia Ieva Leimiane-Veldmeijere and Eva Ikauniece will be working together on the Latvian report. Ieva is the deputy director of Latvian Centre for Human Rights and Ethnic Studies, as well as the program director of the Soros Foundation - Latvia’s Mental Disability Advocacy Program. She received her MA from the philosophy faculty of the University of Latvia. Eva is a program assistant to the Mental Disability Advocacy Program, and is on the board of the NGO Blind and Visually Impaired Children, their Parents, and Friends .She has a degree from the Higher School of Social Work in Riga. Partner NGO: Latvian Centre for Human Rights and Ethnic Studies and the Soros Foundation Latvia Lithuania Dovilė Juodkaitė works as a lawyer at the organsation Viltis, a welfare society for persons with mental disability in Vilnius. In 2000-2001 she prepared a course on Review of Juvenile Delinquency in Lithuania at the Law University of Lithuania as part of the Erasmus programme. She received her Master’s degree with a qualification in law from Vilnius University’s faculty of Law, and is currently pursuing her doctoral degree from the Law University of Lithuania. Klementina Gecaitė also works at Viltis, and will be collaborating on the report with Dovilė. Partner NGO: VILTIS, the Lithuanian Welfare Society for Persons with Intellectual Disability The Netherlands Jacqueline Schoonheim is a researcher of disability and education law, and a lecturer of private law at Maastricht University. She received her JD from the Northeastern School of Law in Massachusetts, USA, and practiced law in Texas, primarily federal class action litigation. She received her LL.M. in Comparative and European Law from Maastricht University in the Netherlands, and is working towards her doctorate there. Poland Eva Wappienik is a currently preparing her doctoral dissertation on the subject of employment of people with intellectual disabilities, at the Maria Grzegorzewska Academy of Special Education. She has worked as a teacher of children with intellectual and multiple disabilities, and contributed to the monitoring access to justice in 2001 with the Helsinki Foundation in Warsaw. Partner NGO: Polish Association for Persons with Mental Handicap Romania Raluca Nica is the Executive Director of the Romanian League for Mental Health, an NGO based in Bucharest. Recent projects implemented by the League for Mental Health include developing a mental health resource centre, and training in capacity-building for other mental health NGOs. She has also served as a manager for the project ''Enhancing Social Cohesion through Strengthening Community Mental Health Services in South Eastern Europe'', under the Stability Pact. Raluca has an MBA from Case Western Reserve University (USA). Partner NGO: Foundation Pentru Voi, Romania Slovakia Viera Záhorcová Alexandra Bražinová is on the Slovak Helsinki Committee’s working group on monitoring the situation of people with disabilities. She is presently an advisor to the Minister of Health on human rights and the rights of patients, having co-authored the Charter of Patients Rights under a Phare project. She has an MD from Charles University, a Master of Public Health degree from the Slovak Academy of Medicine, and a Ph.D. from Comenius University School of Medicine. Partner NGOs: Inclusion Slovakia and the League for Mental Health Slovenia Darja Zaviršek and Špela Urh will be working together on the report for Slovenia. Darja is an associate professor at the School of Social Work, University of Ljubljana, and a researcher at the Institute for Criminology of the University of Ljubljana’s Law Faculty. She has published work in the fields of women’s rights, the rights of minorities, and mental health. She was the reporter for 2002 EUMAP report ''Minority Protection: Slovenia''. Darja received her doctorate from the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Ljubljana. Špela Urh is a researcher and assistant at the Faculty for Social Work of the University of Ljubljana. She was an assistant on EUMAP’s 2002 report ''Minority Protection: Slovenia''. Partner NGO: Association for Theory & Culture of Handicap (YHD) United Kingdom Pauline Banks Stephen Beyer Edyth Dunlop Roy McConkey Hazel Morgan Partner NGO: Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities |
Related Library Resources »Deinstitutionalisation and Community Living – Outcomes and Costs 2008-01-29 · European Commission This study, financed by the European Commission and carried out by the University of Kent (Tizard Centre) and the London School of Economics, confirms that that institutional care is often of unacceptably poor quality. Indeed, sometimes the conditions in institutional care may represent serious breaches of internationally accepted human rights standards. It recommends a wider use of quality, community-based services, which offer better quality of life to people with disabilities, without necessarily costing more. Deinstitutionalisation and Community Living – Outcomes and Costs Executive Summary 2008-01-29 · European Commission This project, led by the University of Kent's Tizard Centre in cooperation with other institutions, aimed to bring together the available information on the number of disabled people living in residential institutions in 28 European countries, and to identify successful strategies for replacing institutions with community-based services, paying particular attention to economic issues in the transition. It is the largest study of its kind ever undertaken. The Executive Summary presents a streamlined version of the ... Deinstitutionalisation and Community Living – Outcomes and Costs Country Reports 2008-01-29 · European Commission This is the third volume of the final report from the European Union Project "Deinstitutionalisation and community living – outcomes and costs: report of a European Study". This project, led by the University of Kent's Tizard Centre in cooperation with other institutions, aimed to bring together the available information on the number of disabled people living in residential institutions in 28 European countries, and to identify successful strategies for replacing institutions with community-based services. This ... European Union Annual Report on Human Rights 2007 2007-12-03 · European Commission The purpose of this ninth EU Annual Report on Human Rights, covering the period from 1 July 2006 to 30 June 2007, is to provide an overview of the human rights-related work of the European Union. The report intends to illustrate how the common values on which the EU is based translate into human rights-related activities with regard to third countries, in multilateral fora and in relation to a number of thematic issues. This edition ... Study of Compilation of Disability Statistical Data from the Administrative Registers of the Member States 2007-11 · European Commission Directorate General for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities The objective of the study is to collect data from national administrative registers in 25 EU Member States (Bulgaria and Romania are not included) relating to disabled people with respect to the following broad themes; prevalence of disability, access to education, labour market, origins of disability, and access to services and long-term care. Thematic reports were elaborated on the basis of these data, examining the situation of people with disabilities (total number and characteristics – ...
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