A Southern European Region of ENIL has been in existence since the beginning of 2012.The Region is coordinated by the Centre for Independent Living in Sofia and personally overseen by Peter Kichashki. Although CIL Sofia  is well-known in the Region for promoting independent living, Peter is a relatively new face - a young, energetic and remarkably smart guy who won't be held back from being part of a good cause by any barrier. Despite his youth he has a lot of experience in fighting discrimination through taking cases to the Bulgarian Anti-Discrimination Board. At the moment he is studying Law at the New Bulgarian University. 

The Regional ENIL start up conference on promotion of Independent Living (IL) in Serbia, was organized by Center for Independent Living Serbia (CIL Serbia) organized as a part of the ENIL annual work plan for the East region. The Conference took place in Belgrade on 21st - 23rd December 2011. in Holiday Inn hotel. It was supported by EU Progress Project, TACSO (Technical Assistance for Civil Society Organisations) Serbia Office and CIL Serbia. 

ENIL has a focus on multiple-discrimination and has worked on a selection of questions to be presented in a survey in the next months.  We would now like also to start the collection of examples from the network.

If you have experienced multiple -discrimination please send an account of the discrimination to  jamie.bolling@enil.eu. 

Please watch for the survey and please participate as it is important to make known cases of discrimination.  

The desk research reports will be made available online on the FRA website in February 2012. The remaining reports will be published in the course of the year, with the Synthesis report being launched at a dedicated conference, which FRA is organising jointly with the Danish Institute of Human Rights, Danish Ministry of Social Affairs and Danish disabled people's organisations (DPOs) under the umbrella of the Danish Presidency of the European Union. The Conference will take place on 7-8 June 2012 in Copenhagen and more information about it will be available from the FRA website next month.  

The Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) is now preparing the 2011 annual report on hate crimes. The report provides an overview of data collected on hate crimes as well as of responses to combat hate crimes. It will be launched on International Tolerance Day on 16 November 2012.

As in previous years, ODIHR encourages submissions from non-governmental organizations. This year, ODIHR has compiled further information for NGOs, please find more information on TANDIS:
- Overview of the hate crime report;
- Frequently asked questions;
- Sample format for collecting information on hate crimes

Information should be sent to tndinfo@odihr.pl no later than 30 March 2012 indicating in the subject line "HCR 2011 (NAME OF YOUR ORGANIZATION)".

Pursuant to the Day of the General Discussion on Article 9 of the Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, held on October 7th, 2010, and the decision taken by the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities' Working Group for drafting a General Comment on Article 9 of the Convention, at the Committee's 6th session held in September 2011, the Committee puts forth an official call for submission of practical and theoretical papers on implementation of the Article 9 on accessibility of the Convention.  

End date: 29/02/2012

6th International Women's Institute on Leadership and Disability (WILD)