People With Disabilities
The EU encourages the active inclusion and full participation of the disabled in society, by an approach that integrates disability in the context of human rights. To achieve its objectives, actions have been established in eight priority areas :
Accessibility: making goods and services accessible to people with disabilities and promoting the market of assertive devices.
Participation: ensure that people with disabilities enjoy all the benefits of European citizenship, eliminate obstacles to equal participation in public life and leisure activities and promote standard quality services.
Equality: fight against discrimination based on disability and expand equal opportunities.
Employment: significantly increase the share of people with disabilities in the open labor market. People with disabilities represent one-sixth of the working-age population of the EU, but their level of employment is comparatively low.
Education And Training: promote inclusive teaching and lifelong learning for all students with disabilities. Access to quality education and continuous exercise on an equal footing allows disabled people to integrate into society and improve their quality of life entirely. The European Commission has launched various educational initiatives for wounded people, such as the European Agency for the Development of the Education of Students with Special Educational Needs and a specific group for the study of disability and continuing education.
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Social Protection: promote decent working conditions and fight against poverty and social exclusion.
Health: improve equal access to health and related services.
External Action: to promote the rights of people with disabilities in the enlargement of the EU and international development programs.