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FROM SPAIN TO BELGIUM: THE DISABILITY INTERGROUP EXPLORES THE JOB YET TO BE DONE
29 July 2010 /// In the whilst of latest European warm wave, slightly before the European Parliament summer break, the Disability Intergroup held two meetings to sum up the achievements of the Spanish Presidency leaving office, and the challenges ahead for the incoming Belgian Presidency. Early July, a second meeting in Strasbourg focused on violence against women with disabilities. Ana Pelaez, one of the leaders of the European disability movement reminded the growing rate of violence against woman with disabilities in the EU.
What were the main issues raised?
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Achievements of the Spanish Presidency: advancement of the work on the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) and its Protocol; horizontal inclusion of disability in the Europe 2020 Strategy and the new Disability Strategy; informal ministerial meeting in Zaragoza; approval by the Council of the Resolution on the new framework on disability;
- Plans for the Belgian Presidency: Conference with the collaboration of the European Commission on the implementation of the UNCRPD; developing the new Disability Framework; roundtable on Poverty and Social Exclusion to show connection with disability;
- New Disability Strategy and its differences from the Disability Action Plan;
- Code of Conduct of the UNCRPD;
- Role of the civil society in cooperation with the European presidency;
- EDF expectations from the new Disability Strategy;
- Growing rate of violence against woman with disabilities in the EU and invisibility of this issue;
- Multiple discrimination of woman and girls with disabilities;
- Priorities of FEMM Committee of the European Parliament;
- Studies funded by European Commission and other activities.
Download full reports from Disability Intergroup meetings:
Next meeting :
- 28 September 2010, Brussels- with the Belgian Presidency
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Contact EDF: Janina Arsenjeva | T +32 2282 4602 | janina.arsenjeva@edf-feph.org
Ewa Pawlowska
| T +32 2286 5183 |
ewa.pawlowska@edf-feph.org
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