Age: all ages
Pagination: 16 pages
Size: 350 x 270 mm
Language: French
Publication: June 2025
Free
The year 2025 marks a major milestone. It has been twenty years since the law on equal rights and opportunities, participation, and citizenship for people with disabilities laid a fundamental framework for our society. Twenty years of struggles, progress, achievements — and of ongoing challenges. Twenty years of a promise: the promise of a truly inclusive society, where everyone has a place, where difference is no longer an obstacle but a strength. SoIn celebrates this important milestone not to rest on past gains, but to reaffirm the urgent need to accelerate progress toward inclusion. Yes, concrete improvements are visible — in the accessibility of public spaces, recognition of invisible disabilities, workplace accommodations, and even in animal-assisted therapy in hospitals. But much remains to be done for this law to be fully experienced in everyday life.
We live in a time where questions of equality and diversity are taking on new significance. Inclusion can no longer be reduced to a legal requirement. It must become a shared value, a collective priority. This calls for deep, cultural change — through innovation, training, awareness-raising, and above all, by listening to those directly affected. As shown by grassroots initiatives led by committed actors, inclusion is a living, evolving process. It requires creativity and long-term commitment. This issue of SoIn invites us to look beyond the numbers and the legal texts. It reminds us that behind every policy, every program, there are lives, journeys, and talents. It highlights the need to pay close attention to all forms of disability, visible or invisible, and the importance of equal access to culture, sport, employment, and mobility.
As we begin this new chapter, we issue a call to everyone: Let us continue, together, to make inclusion a shared reality — a source of enrichment for all. Let us celebrate these twenty years of laws and struggles, but above all, let us commit to building a society where no one is left behind.
Céline Colombier-Maffre (Manager of Publications, Fondation Ipsen, Paris) and Ryadh Sallem (Paralympic athlete, French and European champion in wheelchair basketball and rugby, Capsaaa Association, Paris)
Vincent Vidal has been an independent journalist for over 30 years. He has worked for cinema, women’s, and children’s press. He now turns his focus to the world of antiques, antiquities, and design. Since 2017, he has been the editor-in-chief of the Journal du Village Saint-Martin, a publication dedicated to the 10th arrondissement of Paris. Vincent Vidal is also the author of about ten practical or historical books, including: La Petite Histoire du préservatif, Mode d’emploi du nouveau papa ou Habiter un souplex.
Ryadh Sallem is a board member of ‘Paris 2024’, a high-level athlete with 5 participations in the Paralympic Games (French swimming team, wheelchair basketball, and wheelchair rugby) and a leader in the SSE (Social and Solidarity Economy). This multi-champion in sports and life is known for the numerous battles and victories he achieves in the social and solidarity field. He initiates humanitarian and associative projects aiming to fight against all forms of discrimination, of which disability is a significant component, and founded CAPSAAA, a Parisian sports club and association dedicated to disability prevention and awareness. Organizer of the DEFISTIVAL, creator of the ‘Challenges of Civilizations,’ promoter of societal and cultural symposiums, he is also the originator of EDUCAPCITY, the great civic rally dedicated to 8-14 year olds. A humanist ‘serial entrepreneur’ who urges to reject any form of fatalism and has only one idea in mind: to promote brotherhood and peaceful living together.
Valérie Delattre is an archaeo-anthropologist at Inrap (National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research). She specializes in funeral and cultural practices from the Protohistory to the Middle Ages; she leads a national scientific research program dedicated to the archaeology of disability, intervenes in an associative framework, and within the CNCPH (National Consultative Council for Disability). She is notably the author of Il était une fois la différence. Les archéologues racontent le handicap, published by Actes Sud Jeunesse editions.
