The European Day of Persons With Disabilities recently took place in Brussels from November 24 – 25. It was an important event which holds a great deal of significance for the disabled community. The event champions equal access for individuals with a disability and strives to make sure that continued efforts are made to guarantee their rights and freedoms.
2022’s Programme
The program for this year focuses on two things. First of all, it’s the year of youth for European and global children. Young people have disabilities, just as much as anybody else, and they will inherit the future. We create for them now.
So, it makes logical sense for their experiences and vision for the future to be properly taken into consideration.
Their overall goal is a union where equality is the primary focus. Naturally, the main efforts are being made within the European Union, as this is the place where the authorities and experts from the program can have the most direct impact. However, their efforts will extend out across the world.
However, it’s also worth noting that emphasis was put on violence as a concept. 2022 has obviously been notable for being the year when Ukraine and Russia entered into a conflict, and it meant that many people living with disabilities across these areas were forced to confront violence in a rather brutal fashion.
Because of this, it was important to tackle social issues relating to this and to try and make sure that people with disabilities have access to the support and protection that they need from discrimination or violence, either dealt to them by a country or something as simple as discrimination on the basis of where they come from.
A Great Step Forward
While it is true that the primary sphere of influence for this particular meeting was the European Union, it was incredible to see it on the global stage. The European Union obviously affords a great deal of political and social power across the world, which means that when changes and overhauls begin to happen, the rest of the world sits up and pays attention.
As an NDIS Provider Gold Coast, we were delighted to see that such incredible focus was put on young people with disabilities in particular because they are the future, and they need to have a proper support system in place. Naturally, we need to have proper support for everybody, but it was especially positive to see that young people were getting the focus because they would benefit for the longest time from any new measures and changes that are made across the world.
Final Thoughts
Hopefully, we will begin to see even more change across the world in the future, and programs and meetings like this may start to crop up in places that are not just in the European Union. It would be great if other parts of the world could have similar meetings with some of the foremost experts and advocates for equality, and a single unified set of regulations could be put into place to accommodate all disabled people, regardless of where they may be.