The Hungarian Down Foundation terminated a small but difficult step related to the former MOTE Project (My Opinion My Vote from 2008-2010).
After the MOTE Project has been finished, we had elections here in Hungary.
Dozens of our clients, who were prepared for voting went to vote, and in spite that they were not under exclusionary guardianship (unfortunately these persons are excluded from voting by the Hungarian constitution!), those, who went to vote were "only" under kind of restrictional guardianship (partial exclusion, e.g. from isposition over property), they were not included into the the voting list, so they went there, but could not vote. It was a bad experience for them and for us.
We started court proceeding against the Hungarian state in 2011, and the European Court of Human Rights made a decision in 2013 that the Hungarian state should pay a compensation for six persons, and should publish the Court's decision.
Nothing happened for years, the Hungarian government was not ready to fulfil ECHR (European Court of Human Rights) decisions. After constant complaint, correspondence, threatening, our 'kind' government has finally paid the compensation this year. But publishing the decision and recognition their fault and responsibility didnot succeeded yet.
I think, that it is a nice success for the MOTE Project and of our efforts toward taking the CRPD seriously in the everyday practice.
Thanks for the MOTE project participants and for our Italian partner Paola Vulterini and her staff to manage MOTE Project and also for Janos Fiala who took lawyer activities over and for all, who works for a better world for people with a disability.