To improve the quality of life of persons with autism

Autism Europe Aisbl

Autism-Europe aisbl is an international association whose main objective is to advance the rights of persons with autism and their families and to help them improve their quality of life.

Autism-Europe plays a key role in raising public awareness, and in influencing the European decision-makers on all issues relating to autism, including the promotion of the rights of people with autism and other disabilities involving complex dependency needs.

AE and the Collective Complaint against France

In March 2004, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe made public the decision taken by the European Committee of Social Rights of 4 November 2003 whereby France was found to have failed to fulfil its educational obligations to persons with autism under the European Social Charter. This decision upheld the collective complaint that Autism Europe had lodged against the French Government.

This decision was also the starting point for all Autism Europe’s activities concerning the defence of the rights of persons with autism.