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Czech Ombudsman: Placement in Institution Violates Human Rights
In a victory for the rights of persons deprived of legal capacity and placed in institutions by their guardians, the Czech Ombudsman issued an opinion in a case brought by MDAC and its partner...
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Czech Republic enacts legal capacity law reform
21 February 2012, Budapest and Prague. Yesterday, the Czech President signed a new Civil Code into law. The new law follows a 7 year campaign by civil society organisations, advocating for changes to...
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MDAC training on legal capacity law reform in Bulgaria
22 March 2012. Earlier this week, the Mental Disability Advocacy Center held a two-day training event on legal capacity and supported decision-making in Sofia, Bulgaria, for the members of the newly...
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Russian Constitutional Court criticises “abusive” guardianship law
St. Petersburg (Russia) and Budapest (Hungary). In a case initiated by MDAC, the Russian Constitutional Court yesterday quashed as unconstitutional the lack of alternatives to plenary guardianship. An...
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Spotlight on Lithuania
21 August 2012, Budapest. Today MDAC sent a letter to the Lithuanian Prime Minister asking him to uphold the rights of people with disabilities.Using information submitted by MDAC and our partners the...
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Russia: Countdown towards guardianship law reform
22 August 2012, Budapest and Moscow. As we announced in an information bulletin, on 27 June 2012 the Russian Constitutional Court held that the current law depriving people of legal capacity is...
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MDAC’s recent legal capacity advocacy activities in Lithuania, Bulgaria and...
The Mental Disability Advocacy Center has been actively involved in legal capacity law reform related advocacy activities in the Central and Eastern European Region in the last three weeks.This...
View ArticleMDAC Executive Director: reject oppressive guardianship regimes
Oliver Lewis, MDAC Executive Director, was a keynote speaker this week at the 2nd World Congress on Adult Guardianship, which took place on Monday and Tuesday in Melbourne, Australia.In his speech to...
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Kafka story-line at the European Court of Human Rights
You have a verbal argument with your girlfriend. The police come and take you to a psychiatric hospital. You’ve had a mental illness for many years. You’re allergic to neuroleptic drugs and tell this...
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Latvia abolishes plenary guardianship
Last week the Latvian parliament adopted a new law which abolishes plenary guardianship. This means that the 2,334 people in Latvia who are currently prohibited from taking any decisions about their...
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Hungarian Civil Society Turns to the President Asking Him not to Sign the New...
Today, civil society organisations and experts from the field of disability rights sent a submission (available only in Hungarian) to the President of Hungary asking him not to sign the new Civil Code...
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Slovak Constitutional Court Judgment on Rights of Person Deprived of Legal...
MDAC announced on 8 January 2013 that the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Slovakia had issued a decision on 28 November 2012 in a case regarding deprivation of legal capacity in which it found...
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Serbian judges sentence 3,500 people to civil death each year
New blog post by our Executive Director on how Serbian judges sentence 3,500 people to civil death per year. Read more... Tags: serbia, olivertalks, guardianship, legal capacity
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Ukraine system of guardianship becomes the latest target of critique by the...
Today the European Court of Human Rights fired its first ever shot at the Ukrainian guardianship system, which abuses the rights of an estimated 48,000 people.MDAC co-represented the applicant in the...
View ArticleEU human rights agency calls on governments to support autonomy
MDAC welcomes a new publication by the European Union’s Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), entitled “Legal capacity of persons with intellectual disabilities and persons with mental health...
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MDAC Asks UK House of Lords to Amend Legal Capacity Law
MDAC has today made a submission to the UK House of Lords which is in the process of scrutinising the Mental Capacity Act (MCA). This legislation, which applies to England and Wales, regulates the way...
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Following his victory in Europe, Rusi Stanev returns to court in Bulgaria
Eighteen months after losing a landmark case at the European Court of Human Rights, the Bulgarian government has done nothing to help Rusi Stanev to be freed from guardianship. This week, MDAC and its...
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MDAC welcomes report of UN poverty expert highlighting plight of people with...
MDAC welcomes the statement by Ms Magdalena Sepúlveda, UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, who completed her visit to Moldova last week, calling for the government to adopt...
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United Nations criticises Hungary’s discriminatory voting laws
Today, for the second time, the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD Committee) told the Hungarian government to stop disenfranchising people with intellectual disabilities....
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Russia: Mikhail Kosenko’s conviction highlights widescale political abuse of...
Yesterday a Russian criminal court found Mikhail Kosenko guilty of taking part in a riot in and using violence against police officers in May 2012. The court sentenced him to indefinite psychiatric...
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