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Statistics

Millions of people in Europe are still kept apart from everyone else: in institutions, in separate schools, in hospitals they do not need. Here is what that looks like in numbers.

1 million

people with intellectual disabilities are forced to live in institutions, separated from everyone else

500 k

children go to separate "special" schools instead of the school around the corner

32 k

people spend years of their life in psychiatric hospitals where they do not belong

11

countries can still take away a person's legal capacity, fully or partly