It’s our pleasure to announce the new composition of two of our committees: the Women’s Committee and the Youth’s Committee.
Women’s Committee
The role of the Women’s Committee is to mainstream the gender perspective in all our activities, to raise awareness on the situation of women and girls with disabilities and to work towards the inclusion of women and girls with disabilities in society.
The Committee has 13 members and 4 Observers. You can find their activities in the official webpage.
The 13 members include:
- Pirkko Mahkmäki (Finnish Disability Forum): Chair and Executive focal point
- Ana Peláez Narváez (Comité Español de Representantes de Personas con Discapacidad): Adviser
- Claire Desaint (Conseil Français des personnes Handicapées pour les affaires Européennes et internationales)
- Foteini Zafeiropoulou (National Confederation of Disabled People)
- Luisa Bosisio Fazzi (Italian Disability Forum)
- Barbara Krejči Piry (Slovenian National Disability Council)
- Sara Rocha (European Council of Autistic People)
- Senada Halilčević (Inclusion Europe)
- Karina Chupina (European Federation of Hard of Hearing)
- Elena Ratoi (European Network on Independent Living)
- Guadalupe Morales (European Network of (ex) Users and Survivors of Psychiatry)
- Louise Danielsson (European Union of the Deaf)
- Minna Kejonen (European Blind Union)
The 4 Observers are:
- Simona Aginskaite (Lithuanian Disability Forum)
- Sari Hirvonen-Skarbö (Euro-CIU)
- Isabell Rosenberg (Cerebral Palsy – European Communities Association)
- Fiona Ferris (Autism Europe)
Youth Committee
The Youth Committee is the voice of young people with disabilities inside our organisation. The Committee ensures that our work takes into account the perspective of young people with disabilities and ensures young people with disabilities are represented in our organisation, but also that they represent our organisation.
The Committee has 11 members. You can find their activities in the official webpage.
- Humberto Insolera (European Union of the Deaf): Executive Committee Focal Point
- Vera Bonvalot (Brain Injured and Families – European Confederation): Executive Committee Focal Point
- Alexandre Gomez (Conseil Français des personnes Handicapées pour les affaires Européennes et internationally)
- Amir Alibabic (Slovenian National Disability Council)
- Ben Rowsome (Autism-Europe)
- Charlotte Aelbrecht (Belgian Disability Forum)
- Elias Tebibel (European Union of the Deaf)
- Jonathan Elebjörk Wahlström (European Federation of Hard of Hearing)
- Lydia Vlagsma (Ieder(in))
- Nina Portolan (European Network on Independent Living)
- Tamara Byrne (Inclusion Europe)