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EDbU GENERAL ASSEMBLY (GA) and 2nd EDbU CONFERENCE “OUR WAY TO EQUALITY IN EUROPE”

Dear EDbU members,
EDbU is delighted to share this announcement with you:
EDbU General Assembly (GA) and 2nd EDbU Conference “Our Way to Equality in Europe”
Tampere (Finland)
hosted by the Finnish Deafblind Association (FDBA) 
Save the dates: 5th – 9th June 2017
For further information, please find the 1st Announcement, Prices List and Call for Papers attached below or browse our events webpage at: http://www.kuurosokeat.fi/edbu2017/announcement.php
We are proud to announce that the President of the Republic of Finland, Mr. Sauli Niinistö, is the official Patron of the EDbU GA and Conference as well as Deadblind Women’s Forum and Deadblind Youth Forum.
Be an active member of the EDbU network and spread the word!
We are looking forward to seeing you in Tampere, Finland!
The EDbU team

A MEMORABLE DAY FOR CROATIAN DEAFBLIND!

After years of waiting Croatian Sign Language has finally been recognised on July 10th 2015. The Croatian Parliament unanimously approved the final proposal of the Law on the Croatian Sign Language and Other Communication Systems of Deaf and Deafblind Persons which recognised CSL as the language of the linguistic-cultural minority group of the Deaf and Deafblind in Croatia.

DEAFBLIND IN EUROPE – EXCLUDED FROM THE EXCLUDED?

Brussels, Belgium, June 24, 2015

The EDbU Representatives

The EDbU Representatives

Working Breakfast entitled “Deafblind in Europe – Excluded trom the excluded?”, organized by European Deafblind Union (EDbU) in partnership with MEP Adam Kosa, MEP Davor Stier and MEP Helga Stevens, was held in the European Parliament on June 24,2015.

 

NOTHING ABOUT US WITHOUT US!

EDF LAUNCHES ITS ALTERNATIVE REPORT ON THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES 
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM – MARCH, 18TH 2015
EDF-Alternative-report

EDF-Alternative-Report

EDF was happy to announce that it has submitted its Alternative Report on the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with disabilities (UN CRPD) in Europe to the United Nations Committee.
EDF Alternative Report has been prepared in the frame of the review process of the EU by the UN Committee in Geneva. During its 13th session on 2 April 2015, the UN Committee will examine for the first time the report that the EU has submitted describing the work it has done to put in practice the principles of the UN CRPD since its ratification in 2010.

The Second European Celebration of the Specific Capabilities of the Deafblind 2014, Bulgaria

HOST ORGANIZATION: National Association of the Deafblind in Bulgaria (NADbBg) www.nasgb.org

ACCOMMODATION: BULGARIA, the city of Plovdiv, the Hotel “Novotel” – Plovdiv

DATES: from 14th September 2014 to 22nd September 2014 on the following

GENERAL PROGRAM: eight separate events for persons with deafblindness, as part of the Second European Celebration of the Specific Capabilities of the Deafblind)