ENIL is the umbrella of individuals and organizations dedicated to promoting Independent Living among persons with disabilities and the general public in Europe.

The website for ENIL is now at https://enil.eu/

This page is from 1999.

Independent Living is a philosophy and a movement of people with disabilities who work for equal opportunities, self-respect and self-determination.

Independent Living does not mean that we do not need anybody, that we want to live in isolation. "Independent Living" means that we want the same control and the same choices in every-day life that our non-disabled brothers and sisters, neighbors and friends take for granted. We want to grow up in our families, go to the neighborhood school, use the same bus, work in jobs that are in line with our education and abilities. Most importantly, just like everybody else, we need to be in charge of our own lives, think and speak for ourselves.

To this end we need to support and learn from each other, organize ourselves and work for political changes that lead to legal protection of our human and civil rights.

Members Minutes June 1996 June 1997	Background of ENIL Purpose Mandate Action Plan Statute Procedures Member CILs
Resolution of the Stockholm Meeting on the inclusion of an anti-discrimination clause in the revised European Union Treaty Dublin Statment 1995
Definition of Independent Living Principles of Independent Living The Strasbourg Resolutions (how to design personal assitance schemes for independence) Personal assistance: The key to Independent Living, Strasbourg keynote address
1996 Program of meeting in Stockholm, June Minutes of the General Assembly Meeting, Stockholm, June Prelude to ENIL/DubIin CIL Direct Payments Experts' Meeting, Ireland Intergovernmental Conference in Dublin, December   1997 Invitation to Berlin Seminar, May Report from the ENIL Seminar in Berlin, May   1998 Shaping Our Futures, an ENIL Conference on Independent Living
Back To Basics: Keynote at the Expert Seminar, organized by the Hampshire Center for Independent Living, Mason Campaign for Civil Rights Legislation Closing address delivered at the Symposium on Disability and Human Rights in Dublin Direct Payments Campaign in the U.K. EU programmes with relevance to persons with disabilities Controlling Your Own Personal Assistance Services, presented by The British Council of Organisations of Disabled People
Proceedings of the Third ENIL Seminar, Stockholm 1991 Report of the docs1/ENIL Seminar on Personal Assistance, Stockholm June 1996 Proceedings of the ENIL meeting in Dublin, December 1996
ENIL and the European Union: reports on EU related activities Recent Non-discrimination Measures Adopted by EU (ENIL) Member States
Guide to the Amsterdam Treaty by European Disability Forum United Nations Standard Rules & compliance

Last updated December 15, 1999 
© ENIL

ENIL Website Contents