Australian Federation of Disability Organisations The Australian Federation of Disability Organisations Presentation to DR TAP Forum Bangkok October 22, 2010

Australian Federation of Disability Organisations Role of AFDO AFDO Vision A community where people with disability can participate in all parts of social, economic, political and cultural life. AFDO Mission To champion the rights of people with disability in Australia and help them participate fully in Australian life.

Australian Federation of Disability Organisations National Members  Blind Citizens Australia  Brain Injury Australia  Deaf Australia  Deafness Forum  National Association of People Living with HIV/AIDS  National Council on Intellectual Disability  National Ethnic Disability Alliance  Physical Disability Australia  Women with Disabilities Australia

Australian Federation of Disability Organisations State & Regional Members  Australia for All  Disability Resources Centre  People with Disabilities Western Australia

Australian Federation of Disability Organisations Background  Incorporated 2003  Before this operated as the Disability Caucus from 1994 as an advisory committee to the Federal Gov  Australian Mental Health Consumer’s Network joined in 2004/2005  Since AMHCN disbandoned Janet Meagher has been invited as an observer to member’s meetings  Aust member of Disabled People’s International

Australian Federation of Disability Organisations DR TAP Melbourne Forum  August 13, 2010  Hosted by AFDO and Tokyo Law Advocacy Office  Pre forum teleconference held with DPOs

Australian Federation of Disability Organisations Presentations  Welcome to country  What is DR TAP Yoshi Ikehara  Satoshi Kawashima, The University of Tokyo “Monitoring Mechanism of CRPD”  Professor Ronald McCallum the UN committee  Yukiko Nakanishi, President, Asia Disability Institute “Realization of CRPD in Japanese Way

Australian Federation of Disability Organisations Presentations continued  Therese Sands, PWD Australia-the Shadow Report  Sara Law and Teena Zhang, DLA Phillips Fox – other regional tribunals  Professor Terry Carney, The University of Sydney “A Regional Disability Tribunal for Asia and the Pacific?  Dr David Webb, World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry  “Psychosocial Disability and the Asia Pacific” 

Australian Federation of Disability Organisations Attendance  Mental Health Legal Centre  Office of the Public Advocate  Latrobe University  Disability Discrimination Legal Service,  Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission including its Disability Reference Group  Villamanta Legal Service  International Development Agency CBM  NSW Disability Discrimination Legal Centre

Australian Federation of Disability Organisations Attendance  National Council on Intellectual Disability  Monash University  RMIT University  Elder Rights Victoria  Action for Community Living  People with Disability Australia  Australian Federation of Disability Organizations.

Australian Federation of Disability Organisations Yoshi Ikehara  DR TAP history  DR TAP is a quasi ‑ judicial body which adjudicates on cases involved with disability rights and is composed of persons with disabilities, lawyers and representatives of the general public.

Australian Federation of Disability Organisations Satoshi Kawashima  Human rights is a tree with roots, trunk and branches/leaves.  The roots are the general principles.  The trunk is the social model of disability.  The branches and leaves are definitions, human rights obligations and international monitoring.

Australian Federation of Disability Organisations Ronald McCallum  UN Committee  Optional Protocol  Other treaty bodies  Australia does not have a Human Rights Act

Australian Federation of Disability Organisations Yuki Nakanishi  Japan ratifiying CRPD in Japanese way  Japanese way of government is different to the Japanese way of people with disabilities

Australian Federation of Disability Organisations Therese Sands  Reported on Australia’s development of parallel report  Much information regarding people with disability presently captured through welfare reports  Australian DPOs are reframing issues in human rights language

Australian Federation of Disability Organisations Sara Law & Teena Zhang  European court on human rights  Inter American court of human rights  African court  Underpinned by human rights instruments  Judgments are binding with reinforcement measures

Australian Federation of Disability Organisations Terry Carney Rather than set up a new tribunal we should concentrate on capacity building, attitudinal change and the promotion of the rights that the CRPD encapsulates

Australian Federation of Disability Organisations David Webb  Mental health laws restrict the rights of people with disabilities  Full implementation of CRPD will guarantee rights for people with psycho social disability  Article 12 and supported decision making central  Western responses to mental health leading to colonisation of developing world

Australian Federation of Disability Organisations Comments  UN top down  Slowness in exhausting domestic remedies  Government buy in will come with pressure from civil society  Analyse the success of CRPD campaign  Can’t rely too much on international system  Forum for ideas and joint campaigns

Australian Federation of Disability Organisations Conclusion “I believe we can accomplish this project in a few years because at the beginning of this century, in 2000, I could not believe we would establish the CRPD.. The length of time to accomplish the CRPD was very short. It only took five/six years. So now we are standing at the gate of establishing DRTAP and I believe people with disabilities will accomplish this project. “ Yoshi Ikehara

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