Adabi.se

Disabled Refugees' Stories.

Our new three-year project, funded by the Swedish Inheritance Fund supports storytelling by migrants with disabilities in Sweden. Stories will be about their lives, journeys, successes, and obstacles. We want to create space for voices that are rarely heard. Through their stories, we can foster understanding, highlight injustice, and demonstrate strength and dreams. To write their histories is not just to document—it is to change lives.

Disabled Refugees Welcome (DRW) - Support center for migrants with disabilities

Mutual Integration and the Right to Work (RTA) was a project run by the Independent Living Institute (ILI) and funded by the Swedish inheritance Fund. The project built on the experiences from ILI's previous project Disabled Refugees Welcome, DRW, (2017-2020). Just as in DRW, RTA contributed to an improvement of the integration process for migrants with disabilities, but in RTA access to work was in focus.

Now we are called: Disabled Refugees Welcome - Support center for migrants with disabilities and in addition to counseling, we work strategically to facilitate migrants' access to their rights. By establishing a common strategy and collaborating with different organizations, support can be made more efficient and more accessible to those who need it most.

Assistanskoll is a website providing news, facts and numbers, analysis and advice to assistance users, their families and assistants in the selection of assistance providers. Assistanskoll keeps the public up to date with changes in legislation, case law and market developments.

My Life, My Choice! - The right to support to decide for yourself.

Deciding on one's own life is a human right. Some need help and support to be able to do that. We want to investigate new methods to make this work better. In Sweden today there are two forms of guardianship. We want to improve this system. We want to try having a group of people instead of just one “good man”. The group must let the main character (the one who has support for decision making) decide on his own life. We will also have study circles on rights and self-determination. And peer support. Peer support means that people in the target group help each other.

We will compare different decision support models to see which methods are best.

The Disability Discrimination Reporting Service (Anmälningstjänsten)

Anmälningstjänsten helps individuals and organizations to report cases of discrimination to the Equality Ombudsman and, when appropriate, the respective municipal building authority. The service has been running for 20 years.

Article 19 as a tool

Article 19 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is about everyone's right to a self-determined life in the community regardless of functionality. The project disseminates knowledge of the convention, examines the Swedish laws and the degree of implementation compared to the international commitments that follow from the convention. The website is lagensomverktyg.se. The project was funded by the Swedish Inheritance Fund for three years and reuses the website from the Law as a Tool project (2016 - 2019) that raised awareness of disability discrimination and legal tools to prevent and redress discrimination.

Disability Rights Defenders (DRD) is a network of individuals and organizations with an interest in disability rights and disability law. The purpose of the network is equal rights and access to justice. We promote this by spreading and deepening legal expertise about disability rights among disabled people, disabled people’s organizations, lawyers and law schools for reciprocal empowerment by sharing knowledge and expertise on how to use the law as a tool. Read more about DRD and how to become part of it here..

Assistanstips (Personal Assistance Tips)

The PAtips website has tips, tricks and examples of assistance solutions developed by personal assistance users in Sweden and their assistants.

Fashion Freaks

Fashion Freaks, the website, is a wardrobe full of adapted basic patterns, sewing and knitting instructions, descriptions about customizing ready-made clothing and much more - all to suit wheelchair users. (2005-2007 and 2010 – 2015)