Links in the Region

MACEDONIA

Polio Plus � Movement Against Disability The Mission of Polio Plus is To re-connect people with disabilities to the basic fundamental of freedom and equal opportunities, thereby enabling them to become active participants in society - as is their basic human right; to raise awareness of disability rights within the wider population and to galvanize them to work as one with people with disabilities in order to remove discrimination and marginalisation.

Inter-Party Parliamentary Lobby Group for Protection of Rights of Persons with Special Needs. IPPLG works on new legislation that would guarantee the human rights of persons with Special needs in Macedonia.

VULKAN is an online magazine dedicated to issues related to persons with special needs in Macedonia, published by Polio Plus.

BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

NGO Infocentre for the Republic of Srpska, on this page, you can find links to various associations of persons with special needs in the Republic of Srpska.

Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in B&H Among other activities, HCHR B&H is active in the field of protection of rights of persons with disabilities in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

CROATIA

HUPT Croatian Paraplegic and Tetraplegic Association (HUPT) is an independent, non-governmental, non-profit association of persons with paraplegia and quadriplegia, i.e. primarly of paraplegics and quadriplegics and their close relatives, also of persons who are profesionally and/or morally united by same goals and tasks.

IDEM Association Croatian Association for professional help to children with special needs - Idem was founded in 1994, on the initiative of Faculty of Special Education and Rehabilitation staff and group of parents of children with special needs who attend regular schools

HSUTI Croatian Union of Associations of Persons with Psysical Disabilities (HSUTI) was established in 1970, as an umbrella organization for all associations of persons with special needs.

SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO

DUNAV Association of Paraplegics and Quadriplegics

Hendikep info

Centre �Living Upright� The Centre was founded to assamble people with different kinds of disability, interested in work on creating of a social sorrounding which all human rights will be respected in and all standard rules of the UN for Equal Opportunities and Full Participation in Devolpment for Disabled Persons through various form of supporting disabled people and members of their families will be applied.

Children Heart

VelikiMali Initiative The mission of VelikiMali is to improve personal and social life of children with disabilities and their families throughout individualised approach and respecting their diversities and possibilities.

Association of Students with Disabilities Association of Students with Disabilities (ADS) is a non-governmental, non-partisan, non-profit organization addressing improvement of the position of young people and students with disability and their inclusion in society.

Coalition Against Discrimination

Union of the Blind of Serbia In the 56 years since its foundation, the Union of the Blind of Serbia has developed a highly diversified range of activities. By closely cooperating with state institutions, the Union of the Blind has made a crucial contribution to the education and employment of visually handicapped people, enabling them to enjoy certain benefits and take part in the country's economic and cultural life, on an equal footing.

Resource Center for People with Disabilities The Resource Center for People with Disabilities, a project of the Ecumenical Humanitarian Organization, is funded by the Government of the Republic of Austria and USAID/ADF. Resource Center was established in November 2002 as a joint project of the Ecumenical Humanitarian Organization and Diaconia Austria.

ALBANIA

Beyond the Barrier is a portal dedicated to persons with special needs in Albania.

Albanian Disability Rights Foundation