LECTURES IN ENGLISH

“What we can be proud of”

InspirAction Shot (VIDEO) for Núcleo de Inclusão, Portugal, December 2022

“Ireland Independent Living Movement training”

ILMI interview (VIDEO) Part of 30 years celebration of Independent Living in Ireland, October 2022

“Ageing with a disability: Institutionalization or Personal Assistance?”

Online Awareness Raising Event – Challenges and Good Practice Supporting Older People with Disabilities. European Platform for Rehabilitation, December 10, 2021

“Independent Living and Personal Assistance”

PAKT Project, Turkey, European Network on Independent Living, ONLINE, 23rd of November 2021

“It’s time to move the battle from the street into the courtroom”

Intervention at the conference organized by Lotos (VIDEO) ONLINE, Tuzla, October 2021

“Keynote speech: Celebration of the tenth anniversary of personal assistance.”

Sapporo Center for Independent Living, (VIDEO) ONLINE, September 2021

“Oslo Pride Parade 2021”

ULOBA Online Independent living festival (VIDEO) Oslo, June 2021

“ULOBA 30th Anniversary”

ULOBA Online Independent living festival (VIDEO) Oslo, June 2021

“Introduction to Independent Living”

ENIL Italia Webinar, (VIDEO) ONLINE, September 2020

“National Personal Assistance Policies: what we require and how to work for it”

ENIL Webinar on Personal Assistance, September 14, 2020

“Personal Assistance as Prerequisite for De-institutionalization”

Workshop on De-institutionalization: From Theory to Practice Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, (VIDEO) Athens February 4, 2020

“Conference celebrating ENIL’s 30. Anniversary, Brussels 2019”

Freedom Drive Conference 2019: Defending the Right to Independent Living 30 Years After, ENIL at European Commission October 3, 2019

“Intervention: Personal Assistance”

Freedom Drive Conference 2019: Defending the Right to Independent Living 30 Years After, ENIL at European Commission October 3, 2019

“Personal Assistance: True Personal Assistance vs Fake Versions”

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Second Independent Living Congress, (VIDEO) Valencia, October 25 – 26, 2018

“Access to Justice”

Event on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Human Rights: a reality for all persons with disabilities? Organized by European United Left/Nordic Green Left, European Parliament, Brussels October 17, 2018

“Personal assistance means the difference between surviving and having a real life”

Conference Osobná asistencia – overený spôsob začlenenia ľudí s ťažkým telesným postihnutím, Košice, Slovak Republic, November 2017

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“Personal Assistance and the Crisis: Now is the time to promote Direct Payments for Personal Assistance”

Congress of the European Spinal Cord Injury Federation, Lucignano, Italy 23–25 May 2012

“Personal responsibility as precondition for personal and social change”

Second International Seminar, Center for Independent Living Jerusalem, December 2, 2010

“Independent Living for people with disabilities: from patient to citizen and customer”

25th anniversary of The Spanish Law for Persons with Disabilities, Barcelona October 22, 2007

“The prerequisites for de-institutionalization”

 European Congress on Independent Living, Tenerife, April 24-26, 2003

“Independent Living and the family: the context of Costa Rica and Sweden”

First National Congress on Family and Disability, San José, Costa Rica, December 8-10, 1994

“Four years of struggle to adopt”

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The right to parenthood, Conference organized by the Office of the Swedish Disability Ombudsman and STIL, August 1995

“Independent Living and the family: the context of Costa Rica and Sweden”

Paper presented at the First National Congress on Family and Disability, San José, Costa Rica, December 8-10, 1994

“Personal assistance as key to Independent Living”

Keynote address at the conference on personal assistance, Strasbourg  April 12-14, 1989