#EuropeanElections2024 - it’s time to vote! But not everyone is allowed to exercise their right to vote as they should. Despite recent improvements, many persons with disabilities in the EU are still prevented by legal, technical or physical barriers from voting freely and in secret. See the recent report by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights: https://fra.europa.eu/.../more-people-disabilities-can...This is why Cerebral...
The European Parliament Elections 2024 start one month today! Cerebral Palsy Europe has published a Manifesto for Cerebral Palsy, detailing how EU action – through legislation, standard-setting, funding or another form – makes a difference to the lives of the estimated 800,000 persons with cerebral palsy in the European Union.In addition to English, today we publish the manifesto in French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese and...
Participants from Belgium, Estonia, France, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, Portugal and Slovenia joined Cerebral Palsy Europe’s rich and lively discussion on 8 March 2024 on why the European Parliament elections matter to persons with cerebral palsy. André Ruivo Félix from European Disability Forum explained how the European Election Disability Pledge will help ensure a strong voice for the disability movement from the start of the new...
Anita Loring, 1942-2024 The International Cerebral Palsy Society is sad to announce the passing of Anita Loring, who served the organisation for five decades as its first Secretary and later as Chair and Vice-Chair. Together with her husband James Loring, Executive Director of what was then known as The Spastics Society and is now called SCOPE, Anita brought together leading professionals and pioneering parents from around the globe to...
In advance of World Cerebral Palsy Day on 6 October 2023, a delegation of persons with lived experience of cerebral palsy visited the European Parliament in Brussels to present our Manifesto for Cerebral Palsy. The group met with 12 MEPs from five different political groups, all of whom pledged their support to improve the situation of persons with CP in the European Union. Find out more on our social media pages:...
Cerebral palsy (CP) is the most common form of childhood-onset physical disability. An estimated 800,000 European Union citizens live with CP and another 16 million people are closely connected to a child or adult affected. CP is a lifelong condition and there is no known cure. CP-ECA has published a manifesto to explain how the European Union (EU) can improve the lives of its citizens with CP. It will help citizens with CP, their family...
At its meeting on 4 September 2023, the Executive Committee was delighted to welcome two new organisational members to ICPS: Italy: Fight the Stroke Foundation Mexico: Asociación pro Personas con Parálisis Cerebral (APAC)
We are proud to announce that our Secretary General John Coughlan has been appointed a member of the Steering Committee of the new Civil Society Commission of the World Health Organization. The Commission was launched on Thursday 24 August 2023 at an online meeting with WHO Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. “This is a great opportunity to ensure that the voices of people with disabilities in civil society are heard at the highest...
At its meetings on 12 June 2023 and 7 July 2023, the Executive Committee was delighted to welcome three new organisational and one new associate organisational member (*) to ICPS: * Bulgaria: Specialized Hospital for Rehabilitation of Cerebral Palsy “Santa Sofia” * Romania: Association Maria Beatrice * United States: Cerebral Palsy Foundation * United States: Gillette Children’s Specialty Healthcare*
