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Kapka Panayotova is a well-known disability leader and human rights advocate in Bulgaria. She was one of the founders of Independent Living movement in Bulgaria back in 1995 when The Center for…

17 years old I started Norway’s handicap federal youth – Sarpsborg, (NHFU-Sarpsborg) with other disabled youths. At the same time, I was a board member in Muscular dystrophy association. A few years…

Nadia is an activist for the right to an Independent Living and a member of various organizations that defend the rights of people with functional diversity. Onafhankelijk Leven (CIL of Flanders) ENIL…

Adolf is an international referent for the Independent Living Movement and the fight for the rights of people with disabilities. Director and founder of the Independent Living Institute (ILI) in Sweden, member…

Jorge Falcato Simões is an activist for the rights of people with functional diversity. He belonged to the Board of the Portuguese Association for the Disabled and to the Portuguese Association for…

Realizó estudios de Filosofía y profesionalmente, aparte de otros empleos, trabajó en organizaciones de personas con diversidad funcional y como consultor social. Está vinculado al Movimiento de Vida Independiente (MVI) desde los…

Carmen Morales is President of SOLCOM and a member of the Foro de Vida Independiente and Viandalucía.

Mario Toboso is a Senior Scientist at the Institute of Philosophy of the Higher Council for Scientific Research, CSIC. PhD from the University of Salamanca, Bachelor of Physical Sciences from the same…

Stig Langvad graduated in Political Science and has also traininig in journalism and education, as well as in political and professional planning communication. I have been a spinal cord injury since 1973,…

He has been a member of the Foro de Vida Independiente y Divertad -Forum of Independent Living- (FVID) since 2004, and as such he appeared before the Committee on Social Policy of…