Kiev 24 May Presentation by Ingemar Färm, board member of European Disability Forum (EDF) PROTECTION OF THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES IN EUROPE - the factual situation encountered in the Council of Europe - major international campaigns in this field
Kiev 24 May WHERE IT STARTED 1948 The UN Declaration on Human Rihgts
Kiev 24 May FIRST INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN Establishing an international disability movement Rehabilitation International World Federation of the Deaf /1964 World Blind Union : The World Veteran Federation World Federation of Hemophilia and 80ies: Disabled Peoples International (DPI), Inclusion International, International Hard of Hearing Federation, World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry, International Diabetes Federation, International Bureau for Epilepsy
Kiev 24 May RESULTS OF FIRST INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN 1981 The International Disability Year 1982 The World Action Program on Disability The Disability Decade
Kiev 24 May SECOND INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN Launching the idea of a convention on disability Half time evaluation of the decade UN working group to elaborate draft Standard Rules
Kiev 24 May RESULTS OF THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN 1993 The UN Standard Rules
Kiev 24 May THIRD INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN Implementation of the Standard Rules The UN Rapporteur Agenda 22
Kiev 24 May FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN We want a convention /51 The UN resolution The initiative of Mexico The UN Ad Hoc committee
Kiev 24 May RESULTS OF THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN 2006 The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with disabilities
Kiev 24 May THE FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN Implementation of the convention and onwards: Activities of the international disability movement and onwards: Agenda 50
Kiev 24 May THE FACTUAL SITUATION Signing and ratification - Translation - Reports to the UN committee on the rights of persons with disabilities in Geneva - Alternative reports - Some national examples
Kiev 24 May CHALLENGES - Definition of disability - Involvement of the disability movement in the process - The demands in the different articles
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