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4 September 2013, London and Budapest. MDAC has today made a submission to the UK House of Lords which is in the process of scrutinising the Mental Capacity Act (MCA). This legislation, which applies to England and Wales, regulates the way in which people with disabilities can make decisions in their lives when they have been deemed ‘incompetent’ by the courts.
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4 September 2013, Budapest: The Václav Havel Prize for Human Rights is presented annually by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, in partnership with the Václav Havel Library and the Charter 77 Foundation , to reward outstanding civil society action in the defence of human rights in Europe and beyond.
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3 September 2013, Budapest. In his latest post, our Executive Director gives his alternative to Secretary of State John Kerry's speech.
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8 August 2013. Today MDAC asked the UN Human Rights Committee to promote, rather than ignore, UN disability rights standards.
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