Podcast Launch: LITI-GATE – Strategic Litigation for Disability Justice in the EU
A new podcast from LITI-GATE exploring how legal action can transform lives. Produced by LitiGate partners
What happens when justice is denied not by accident—but by design? Across Europe, millions of people with intellectual and psychosocial disabilities face daily rights violations, often hidden behind institutional walls and legal systems that fail them. But a growing movement is turning the tide.
Here comes Podcast Litigate — a bold new series exploring how legal action can become a powerful force for change.
Through raw, first-hand accounts and expert insights, Podcast Litigate peels back the curtain on Europe’s most urgent disability rights cases—from harrowing abuse in state institutions to the courageous legal battles pushing back against systemic injustice.
This is more than a podcast about law. It’s a podcast about people—about silenced voices, shattered rights, and the fight to restore dignity through strategic litigation.
🎙️ Collaborate. Innovate. Advocate. 🎙️
Each episode features powerful testimonies from activists, legal experts, and individuals with lived experience, taking listeners deep into the legal trenches where advocacy meets accountability. These stories spotlight how targeted legal cases can challenge unjust guardianship regimes, dismantle discriminatory laws, and spark continent-wide reform.
Take Hungary: where residents of a state institution, trapped under restrictive guardianship, suffered abuse with no way to speak out. But thanks to tireless legal advocates, a case was brought—not just to seek justice for individuals, but to challenge the very laws that enabled the abuse.
This is the heart of strategic litigation. Not just fighting for one person but fighting to rewrite the rules.
“We created Podcast Litigate to amplify the stories too often buried beneath bureaucracy,” says Anna Bracco, Project Lead for LitiGate at Victim Support Europe. “It’s a call to action, a roadmap for change, and a tribute to those who dare to fight back.”
Whether you’re a legal professional, a human rights advocate, or someone simply passionate about justice, Podcast Litigate is essential listening.
🎧 Available now on Spotify, YouTube, and the VSE website.
The LITI-GATE project – Strategic Litigation as a Gateway to address the rights of Persons with Disabilities in the European Union – brings together 6 partners from 5 countries with the aim to promote enforcement of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights with strategic litigation activities to address breaches of the fundamental rights of persons with intellectual and/or psychosocial disabilities.
