Under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), people with disabilities are no longer being considered as being unable to play an active role in society. Instead of people with disabilities being viewed as the problems, the barriers they face are clearly recognised as being the source of the problem.

This factsheet looks at some of the rights guaranteed by the United Nations (UN) human rights convention, namely the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).

This factsheet examines the policy context and key issues of the first FRA disability project.

This report provides the first results from a legal study carried out by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) in the context of its project on the "Fundamental rights of persons with intellectual disabilities and persons with mental health problems".

Information about the FRA and the project on fundamental rights of persons with intellectual disabilities and persons with mental health problems.

Information about the FRA and their report about some of the laws in Europe.