Disability Rights in Rhetoric and Reality: Bringing the Hungarian EU Presidency Home - MDAC event in Budapest

MDAC will facilitate a constructive dialogue on ”Disability Rights in Rhetoric and Reality: Bringing the Hungarian EU Presidency Home”, from 1pm to 2pm on Wednesday 20 April in the London Room, Hotel Mercure Metropol, Rákóczi út 58, Budapest.

The event takes place during lunchtime of an EU meeting on disability. The topics for discussion at the MDAC event will include the new Hungarian Constitution and the discrimination against people with disabilities contained in it; the lack of coordination and monitoring of disability law and policy; the lack of participation of civil society in policy-making; the exclusion of people with psycho-social (mental health) disabilities from the disability law; the fact that there are 67,000 Hungarian adults with disabilities stripped of their legal capacity, the 24,000 people with disabilities in long-term institutions who are denied the right to live in the community, and whose rights are not monitored.