The EEG has submitted its contributions to the UN CRPD Committee’s public consultations on two draft guidelines:
🔹 Disability-based violence
🔹 Intersectional discrimination against women and girls with disabilities
In our submissions, we highlighted a simple but important message: deinstitutionalisation is not only about where people live. It is also about preventing violence, discrimination and exclusion.
Institutionalisation creates conditions that increase dependency, limit choice and control, and expose people to greater risks of abuse and neglect. At the same time, accessible and quality community-based support systems help advance human rights, gender equality and participation in society.
We therefore called for stronger recognition of:
✔ Deinstitutionalisation as a key measure to prevent disability-based violence;
✔ The role of community-based support in reducing discrimination and exclusion;
✔ The fact that institutionalisation is defined by segregation and lack of choice and control, not by the size of a setting;
✔ The links between institutionalisation, gender inequality, violence and intersecting forms of discrimination.
We thank the UN CRPD Committee for the opportunity to contribute to this important process and look forward to the finalisation of both guidelines.