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Article 28 CRPD

1. States Parties recognize the right of persons with disabilities to an adequate standard of living for themselves and their families, including adequate food, clothing and housing, and to the continuous improvement of living conditions, and shall take appropriate steps to safeguard and promote the realization of this right without discrimination on the basis of disability.

2. States Parties recognize the right of persons with disabilities to social protection and to the enjoyment of that right without discrimination on the basis of disability, and shall take appropriate steps to safeguard and promote the realization of this right, including measures: a. To ensure equal access by persons with disabilities to clean water services, and to ensure access to appropriate and affordable services, devices and other assistance for disability-related needs; b. To ensure access by persons with disabilities, in particular women and girls with disabilities and older persons with disabilities, to social protection programmes and poverty reduction programmes; c. To ensure access by persons with disabilities and their families living in situations of poverty to assistance from the State with disability-related expenses, including adequate training, counselling, financial assistance and respite care; d. To ensure access by persons with disabilities to public housing programmes; e. To ensure equal access by persons with disabilities to retirement benefits and programmes.

Country report on the social inclusion and social protection of disabled people in European countries - Spain (PDF 294 kB)
Compiled by the Academic Network of European Disability Experts (ANED) - state of affairs up to November 2009
Date: 10 February 2011. Topics
Country report on the social inclusion and social protection of disabled people in European countries - Greece (PDF 306 kB)
Compiled by the Academic Network of European Disability Experts (ANED) - state of affairs up to November 2009
Date: 10 February 2011. Topics
Country report on the social inclusion and social protection of disabled people in European countries - Estonia (PDF 675 kB)
Compiled by the Academic Network of European Disability Experts (ANED) - state of affairs up to November 2009
Date: 10 February 2011. Topics
Country report on the social inclusion and social protection of disabled people in European countries - Denmark (PDF 230 kB)
Compiled by the Academic Network of European Disability Experts (ANED) - state of affairs up to November 2009
Date: 10 February 2011. Topics
Country report on the social inclusion and social protection of disabled people in European countries - Czech Republic (PDF 240 kB)
Compiled by the Academic Network of European Disability Experts (ANED) - state of affairs up to November 2009
Date: 10 February 2011. Topics
Targeting and mainstreaming disability in the 2008-2010 National Strategy Reports for Social Protection and Social Inclusion - PDF 1.209 kB)
Synthesis report - updated edition November 2009 (first edition October 2008) by Mark Priestley.
Date: 10 February 2011. Topics
Country report on the social inclusion and social protection of disabled people in European countries - United Kingdom (PDF 5.952 kB)
Compiled by the Academic Network of European Disability Experts (ANED) - state of affairs up to November 2009
Date: 10 February 2011. Topics
Country report on the social inclusion and social protection of disabled people in European countries - Norway (PDF 3.209 kB)
Compiled by the Academic Network of European Disability Experts (ANED) - state of affairs up to November 2009
Date: 10 February 2011. Topics
Country report on the social inclusion and social protection of disabled people in European countries - Germany (PDF 5.730 kB)
Report on the social inclusion and social protection of disabled people in European countries
Date: 10 February 2011. Topics
Country report on the social inclusion and social protection of disabled people in European countries - Slovakia (PDF 5.297 kB)
Compiled by the Academic Network of European Disability Experts (ANED) - state of affairs up to November 2009
Date: 10 February 2011. Topics
Synthesis report on disability mainstreaming in the 2008-2010 National Strategy Reports for Social Protection and Social Inclusion (NSRs) (PDF 471 kB)
Report prepared for the Academic Network of European Disability experts (ANED) October 2009
Date: 10 February 2011. Topics
The implementation of EU social inclusion and social protection strategies in European countries with reference to equality for disabled people (PDF 1462 kB)
Implications for people with disabilities (PwDs) arising from the national policy developments during 2006-2008
Date: 10 February 2011. Topics