Focus: Disability rights and the crisis

A series of features. With Europe now in its fifth year of economic crisis, the most vulnerable in society are feeling the effects of governments' reined-in spending. Disabled people, often reliant on both state services and allowances, are among those hardest hit.

http://ec.europa.eu/justice/discrimination/disabilities/index_en.htm http://ec.europa.eu/justice/discrimination/disabilities/index_en.htm

Website: Academic Network of European Disability experts (ANED) http://www.disability-europe.net/

Website: Council of Europe: Society: Disabilities http://hub.coe.int/web/coe-portal/what-we-do/society/disabilities

Website: WHO: Health topics: Disabilities http://www.who.int/topics/disabilities/en/

http://www.edf-feph.org/ http://www.edf-feph.org/

ESO: Background information: People with disabilities http://www.europeansources.info/record/website-people-with-disabilities-2/

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