A magyar fogyatékosügyi szervezetek és szövetségeseik hierarchiamentes együttműködési hálózata, a Magyar Fogyatékosügyi Civil Caucus elkészítette a civil társadalom párhuzamos jelentését Fogyatékos személyek jogai vagy fogyatékos jogok? címmel.

A jelentés augusztus 10-én került bemutatásra a Közép-Európai Egyetemen.

A jelentés azt vizsgálja, Magyarország mennyiben tesz eleget azon kötelességeinek, melyeket az ENSZ Fogyatékossággal Élő Személyek Jogairól szóló egyezményének 2007-es ratifikálásával vállalt.

A dokumentum teljes szövege az alábbi linken érhető el: Fogyatékos személyek jogai vagy fogyatékos jogok?

12 August 2010, Budapest (Hungary) and Sofia (Bulgaria). In a decision dated 29 June 2010, the European Court of Human Rights declared the application of Rusi Stanev v. Bulgaria (application no. 36760/06) admissible. The Fifth Section of the Court, in a procedure reserved for cases that raise issues of great importance, relinquished the case to
the Grand Chamber for judgment on the merits.

Mr. Stanev, who is represented by the Mental Disability Advocacy Center and the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee, is a man with a psycho-social disability who was partially deprived of his legal capacity and placed into the Pastra Social Care Institution without his consent in 2002. He has been deprived of his liberty since. No evaluation was ever undertaken to determine that Mr. Stanev was not capable of living on his own and no
court has ever reviewed his need to stay there. The director of the institution is the guardian for Mr. Stanev and therefore controls his finances and identity papers as well as deciding his place of residence.

MDAC has recently moved offices and is now based in:

Hercegprímás utca 11

H-1054 Budapest

Hungary.

Our phone and fax numbers remain the same. Unfortunately, as a result of the move, we had no access to internet, emails and telephone between 18 July and 4 August and have not received any incoming messages which were sent during that time. We kindly ask all messages to be re-sent and apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Budapest (Hungary) and Strasbourg (France), 20 May 2010. Persons with disabilities placed under guardianship are one of the most vulnerable groups of Hungarian society. One reason for their exclusion is that they are automatically deprived of their basic right to participate in political decision-making. Today, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that this blanket disenfranchisement is contrary to the European Convention of Human Rights.