Human Rights
The aim of EUD is to achieve equality and non-discrimination by protecting the human rights of all deaf people, therefore EUD aims to meaningfully promote, protect, monitor, and raise awareness of the human rights of all deaf persons in the EU through its policy, capacity- building, and communication work.
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