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Life won't change for the disabled in Europe until the EU fully implements the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. (Photo: Sophie Deracrouix)

Disabled people still feel like second-class citizens in EU

When they asked us at the Sharm-El-Sheik airport to flatten the back of my electric wheelchair, I started to worry.

I knew my custom-made wheelchair was going into the hold as luggage. I am used to it, to lose my independence just to be able to travel. But I was not only losing my 'arms and legs' during the flight– I was entering the roulette many persons with disabilities face whe...

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Life won't change for the disabled in Europe until the EU fully implements the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. (Photo: Sophie Deracrouix)

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Nadia Hadad is a member of the executive committee of the European Disability Forum, co-chair of the European Network on Independent Living and a vice president of the Brussels City Advisory Council of Persons with Disabilities.

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