During a press conference held in the European Parliament this afternoon, hosted by MEP Paul Murphy, members of the European Network for Independent Living, an organisation of disability rights organisations,
announced it was staging a sit-in in room N.1.4 in the EP in Strasbourg until such time as the President of the Intergroup on Disability Rights came to talk and listen to them about their campaign on the right to independent living.

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