Fundamental rights receive boost as EU proposes enlarging discrimination ban outside workplace More than one in ten, that is, at least 50m citizens throughout the EU, must deal with a disability and are confronted daily with physical barriers. And, as populations are increasingly ageing and disabilities are often acquired with age, their number is set to increase. Although EU legislation has been in place since 2000 to implement the principle of equal treatment in employment, disabled people still remain among the most disadvantaged social groups throughout Europe. Indeed, 45% of Europeans recently surveyed think that discrimination amongst disabled people is particularly rife. Examples of initiatives favouring accessibility in an educational, ICT and urban (buildings and transport) setting filmed in Spain, Poland and the Netherlands including Alfonso Huertas Marchal, Chairman FEJIDIF, regional NGO, Jaen, Spain Wieslaw Wlodarski, Headmaster, Ruy Barbosa intergrated High School, Warsaw, Poland Nikolaus van der Pas, Director General, Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities, European Commission Pedro Delgado Garcia, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Jaen Lisa Duarte de Figueiredo, Digital Manager, SNS Bank,Netherlands
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