Tim Shriver: Intellectually disabled people still face mocking, humiliation

Special Olympics Chairman Tim Shriver welcomed the EU’s initiatives to promote social inclusion through sport, but warned that intellectually disabled people are still facing “mocking, humiliation, denial of medical care, denial of education” across the continent. “So our population, this massive humanity you see behind us, representing over 200 million people all over the world, are still awaiting the civil right movement, the human rights movement that is rightfully theirs. We are here to continue