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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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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.

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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