The European Disability Forum has launched a EU wide campaign to attract attention of candidates to the European Parliament elections to disability issues, encourage inclusion of candidates with disabilities in political parties lists, guarantee full accessibility to voters with disabilities to the vote, and finally to encourage disabled people to vote!
EDF is requesting political parties and candidates to:
Recognize disability policy across all areas of EU and national policy;
Campaign for immediate transposition in their country of provisions in the Equal Treatment in Employment Directive that prohibit disability discrimination;
Support the introduction of accessibility criteria attached to the disbursement of European funds such as Structural funds;
Consult constituents who have a disability and parents of disabled people unable to represent themselves and their representative organisations.
EDF has launched a website dedicated to this campaign on the EP elections 2004.
