Down Syndrome Ireland seeks standardised EU legislation

The EU Parliament is coming under pressure to standardise disability legislation from Down Syndrome Ireland.

The group says that disabled people in many European countries, including Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria, have only limited human rights protection under the law.

It is helping to collect a petition of a million signatures calling for the full inclusion of every European citizen with disabilities.

Spokesperson Pat Clarke says that at the moment, many disabled Eastern Europeans are abandoned in institutions from a young age.