Independent Living Movement Ireland

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Human Rights

Human rights are about discovery, capacity, and control over one’s life. It involves having options and making informed choices.
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Statement of Outcome:

ILMI seeks to promote and support disabled people’s involvement in activism and their participation in collective action and decision-making, through providing and advocating for the required supports and the range of options and advocating for the removal of barriers. 

Statement of Process:

ILMI provides collective spaces for thinking, sharing knowledge, and building skills, and works in a manner that offers opportunities for disabled people to use this thinking, knowledge and skills in taking actions to realise their rights and achieve their full potential. 

Strands of activity:

Under the Value of Human Rights, ILMI will promote and support disabled people’s involvement in activism and their participation in collective action and decision-making.

ILMI will undertake the following strands of activity over the lifetime of our strategic plan: 

  • Engage and connect disabled people through: outreach initiatives, making connections, building relationships, and presenting ILMI’s perspectives.
  • Capacity-building for activism through: training, peer mentoring and support, and analysis development.
  • Build and facilitate collective peer-led spaces to stimulate and enable belonging, collectivism, and activism
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