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📣 Officially adopted!! The #EUDisabilityCard and #EUParkingCard are now adopted by the EU Council. This will make it easier for persons with disabilities to access services and travel across the EU. #EUDisabilityRights

Excited to announce the #EDPD2024 Conference in Brussels with European Commission on 28-29 November! Join us for key discussions on employment, independent living, and transport plus the 15th anniversary of #EUAccessCity. Live-streamed in 9 languages. edf-feph.org/events-slug/eu…

Get ready for the European Day of Persons with Disabilities Conference 2024 and join the conversation on #EUDisabilityRights: 📅 28-29 November 📍 Brussels & online 🔴 Watch live! Day 1: europa.eu/!gxPrc6 Day 2: europa.eu/!m7g64c #EDPD2024 #AccessCityAward

Over 3 million adults & children with disabilities still live in institutions. To uphold their right to independent living, we just adopted new guidelines to help Member States accelerate the transition from institutional care to community-based services. #DisabilityRights 👇

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It's International Day of Persons with Disabilities. 100 million Europeans live with a disability. Every day, the EU works for the inclusion and equality of persons with disabilities across Europe. Let’s #MakeItWork for a more inclusive society. #EUDisabilityRights #IDPD2024

YK:n vammaissopimuksen 3. kansallinen toimintaohjelma on julkaistu. Toimenpiteet vuosille 2024–2027 edistävät vammaisten oikeuksia eri hallinnonaloilla. Osallisuus ja yhdenvertaisuus keskiössä. ♿ Lue lisää: 📎 stm.fi/-/yk-n-vammais…

FN:s tredje nationella handlingsprogram för funktionshinderskonventionen har publicerats. Åtgärderna för 2024–2027 främjar rättigheter för personer med funktionsnedsättning inom olika förvaltningsområden. Delaktighet och jämlikhet är i fokus. Läs mer: 📎stm.fi/-/yk-n-vammais…

The European Commission guidance on #IndependentLiving is a positive step. It reaffirms the need to phase out existing segregated settings and that EU funds should eventually stop supporting them. Read @HaydnHammer analysis: edf-feph.org/new-commission…

Tervetuloa konferenssiin: Oikeus itsenäiseen elämään ja osallisuuteen 12.-13.2.2025 THL:ssä (hybridi). ✅Teemat: itsenäisen elämän mahdollistavat palvelut, laitosasumisen lakkauttaminen & tuettu päätöksenteko. ✅Ilmoittautuminen päättyy 4.2.2025. Linkki: nordicwelfare.org/fi/evenemang/h…

Pohjolan päivänä 23.3. juhlistetaan pohjoismaista yhteistyötä. Suomi ja Ahvenanmaa ovat Pohjoismaiden ministerineuvoston puheenjohtajia vuonna 2025. Ulkoministeriö ja @hanaholmen järjestävät 20.3. seminaarin varautumisesta Pohjolassa. Seuraa ohjelmaa ⬇️ youtube.com/live/9wwmdKv7A…

Indigenous persons with disabilities should be actively engaged in shaping global disability policy. Join us at #COSP18 side-event: Our knowledge, our power: Advancing the Rights and Leadership of Indigenous Persons with Disabilities 🗓️June 10, 4:45–6:00 PM (EST) 📍CR6, UNHQ

Join us at #COSP18 side event: AI for all - Promoting participation of persons with disabilities through inclusive, fair and accessible artificial intelligence 🗓️June 11, 10:00–11:15 AM (EDT) 📍CR 11, UN Headquarters and UN Web TV Program and speakers: norden.org/en/event/side-…

Finland’s delegation is ready for the start of the 18th Session of the Conference of States Parties to the #CRPD! This year’s focus: awareness raising and social development, innovative financing, AI for inclusivity, and rights of Indigenous persons with disabilities. #COSP18

Don’t forget to join us today at #COSP18 side-event: AI for all - Promoting participation of persons with disabilities through inclusive, fair and accessible artificial intelligence! 🗓️June 11, 10:00–11:15 AM (EDT) 📍CR 11, UN Headquarters and UN Web TV

Tekoäly voi edistää vammaisten henkilöiden oikeuksia, mutta se vaatii osallistavaa kehitystä. Pohjoismaiden sote- ja digitalisaatioministerit sitoutuvat edistämään vammaisten henkilöiden osallistumista tekoälyä koskeviin päätöksiin. 🔗stm.fi/-/ministereilt… Valtiovarainministeriö | Finansministeriet

You can watch the recording at UN Web TV 🎥 🔗webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1d/k…

A real pleasure to moderate today an exciting panel on #ArtificialIntelligence for All #CoSP18 with a focus on Persons with disabilities and women and girls in all their diversity - they all must be active part of it from the inception not afterwards, not afterthought! Universal

At our #COSP18 side-event, Nordic Ministers of health and social issues and Nordic & Baltic Ministers of digitalization released a declaration on promoting participation of persons with disabilities through inclusive, fair and accessible AI. 🔗stm.fi/en/-/ministers… Sosiaali- ja terveysministeriö