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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 »Amnesty International Report 2009: Bulgaria 2009-05-28 · Amnesty International (AI) Amnesty International’s Report 2009 evaluates the human rights situation throughout 2008 in Bulgaria. The report points out that asylum-seekers continued to be detained for months and even years, and were denied protection. Discrimination against minorities persisted. Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people continued to experience violence and intolerance. Reports of ill-treatment by law enforcement officials were received throughout the year. Amnesty International Report 2009: Czech Republic 2009-05-28 · Amnesty International (AI) Amnesty International’s Report 2009 evaluates the human rights situation throughout 2008 in Czech Republic. The report underlines that the government again failed to implement adequate anti-discrimination provisions. The Roma continued to experience discrimination, particularly in accessing education, housing and health, as well as threats of attacks by far-right groups. There were concerns over inhuman and degrading treatment of people with mental disabilities. Amnesty International Report 2009: Ireland 2009-05-28 · Amnesty International (AI) Amnesty International’s Report 2009 evaluates the human rights situation throughout 2008 in Ireland. The report underlines that the use, production and transfer of cluster munitions were banned. Concerns were expressed about overcrowding in prisons and the inadequate provision of children’s mental health services. Proposed reductions in government spending threatened to undermine the protection of human rights. Amnesty International Report 2009: Romania 2009-05-28 · Amnesty International (AI) Amnesty International’s Report 2009 evaluates the human rights situation throughout 2008 in Romania. The report affirms that there were further allegations that Romania was involved in the US-led secret detention and renditions program, despite continued denials of any involvement by the government and the findings of a Senate commission of inquiry. There were reports of ill-treatment, excessive use of force and the unlawful use of firearms by law enforcement officials. Discrimination against Roma and lesbian, ... Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2008: Serbia 2009-03-25 · US Department of State The Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, submitted annually by the U.S. Department of State to the U.S. Congress, cover internationally recognized individual, civil, political, and worker rights, as set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This report on Serbia states that in 2008 the government generally respected the human rights of its citizens; however, the following human rights problems were reported: police brutality; corruption in the police and the judiciary; inefficient and ...
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