The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) is one of the most widely signed and ratified international human rights conventions, including every EU member state and the European Union itself. It outlines the range of measures that governments need to put in place to ensure equal rights and articulate very clearly the importance of meaningful participation of persons with disabilities through their representative organisations. Equality before the law is an important part of having full rights in society, and yet this remains far from reality for people with disabilities everywhere.
Archaic laws in Europe still persist, these allow for the denial of the right to vote and stand for election, the denial of the right to decide for yourself to consent to medical treatment, to sign a contract or manage your own money. These archaic laws can be found all around the world.
This conference we will explore how well we advanced towards equality before the law in line with article 12 of the CRPD, which barriers still exist and how we can work together to make equality before the law a reality.
Venue
The Conference, lunch and official dinner will all be held at the Clayton Hotel Cardiff Lane, in room “Grand Canal Suite”.
Lunch and dinner will be provided for all Conference attendees. Please indicate if you will be attending through the registration form below.
Participants to the Conference are also kindly invited to attend the EDF Board session in the afternoon from 14:00 to 16:00.
Accessibility
We will provide International sign interpretation and real-time captioning in English.
The event will also be livestreamed (link to the livestream will be sent by email separately for those who request it through the registration form below). Please be aware that the livestream will provide real-time captioning but not international sign interpretation.
For any questions, please contact Raquel Riaza.
Documents
Draft agenda Conference Board meeting Dublin November 2022