Social inclusion: a very distant goal
The news according to which, in Bari, eight people with disabilities have been sentenced to four months’ imprisonment for having demonstrated to protect their rights is from these hours Social exclusion in Italy is growing rather than decreasing. It is no surprise to note that living in a healthy, secure society, with educational, economic and…
About disability and “reasonable accommodation”
In these hours, in every part of the world, one person in six is engaged, in view of December 3, in organizing meetings to celebrate the World Day of Persons with Disabilities to draw public attention to social inclusion and the breaking down of all barriers. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons…
Indifference is a dead end street
Love, responsibility and solidarity are precious and indispensable ingredients for freely exercising our rights. Difficult to find when you forget that we are the others, victims of a society that marginalizes everything and everyone, leaving no escape for fragile people. Few care that the needs in the world are many and not all the same.…
An inclusive society is possible: collaboration between schools, universities, families, businesses, communities and the territory
The concept of an inclusive society for all, thanks to the achievements of scientific research, is spreading more and more among people. Today the greatest challenge is to promote the well-being of all at all ages and to guarantee a universal, plural, accessible policy capable of enhancing the differences and strengths of each individual, according…
When actuality causes memories
The debate on disabilities, on people deprived of human rights guaranteed by citizenship. On the families, completely abandoned, who go in search of imaginative solutions, in search of a normal life, a place where you can live without dying for a non-existent health, it causes memories and thoughts that cross each other and maybe placed…