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Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)

 

IDDC has played a key role in supporting the CRPD's development process and is now engaged in promoting its implementation through the activities listed below.

 

Call for presentations at 2012 Civil Society CRPD Forum


How inclusive is Belgian development cooperation of people with disabilities? (April 2012)


Follow 7th session of the CRPD Committee via livestreaming (April 2012)


Promise of central position for disability in Ireland's Development Aid


Meeting of UN Partnership to Promote the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (March 2012)


Two-minute "Dancing for Inclusion" in Brussels (March 2012)

  • Read report here
  • Read announcement here

Including the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the EU's Agenda for Change (February 2012)

  • Download here MS Word icon
  • Download the common paper with EDF here MS Word icon


Promoting inclusive development: Persons with disabilities in Belgian development cooperation (December 2011)

  • Read report here
  • Read announcement here


Development Cooperation - all inclusive? Towards implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (December 2011)

  • Read report here
  • Read announcement here


IDDC at the EU-ACP Joint Parliamentary Assembly in Lomé, Togo (November 2011)


Workshop on Italy’s commitment to article 32 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (October 2011)

  • Read report here
  • Read announcement here

The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities - Promoting Disability Inclusion in Ireland and the World (October 2011)

  • Read report here
  • Read announcement here


IDDC panel discussion ‘Realizing Accessible and Inclusive Development for All’ (September 2011)

  • Read report here
  • Read announcement here

IDDC at the Joint Parliamentary Assembly in Budapest (May 2011)


IDDC lunchtime panel discussion on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and International Cooperation (March 2011)


IDDC contribution to the EC Public Consultation on Global Budget Support

  • Read more here (December 2010)


2010 Selection of EU instruments and processes for review of EU incorporation of CRPD article 32


 

Workshop Making EC Development Cooperation Inclusive of Persons with Disabilities (October 2010)


IDDC attends the UNCRPD Committee meeting in Geneva (October 2010)


IDDC Statement included in the UNHCR Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Day of General Discussion (October 2010)


Second Interactive Debate on the structure and role of national mechanisms for the implementation and monitoring of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (March 2010)

  • Download more info here


IDDC present at the European Development Days 2009 (December 2009)


Members of the European Parliament Call for All European Funded Projects to be Accessible to Persons with Disabilities, 29 September 2009

  • Read more here
  • Download briefing here


IDDC present at second Conference of State Parties in New York (September 2009)


Parliamentarians stand up for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (July 2009)
Support for Persons with Disabilities in the new European Parliament


Support for Persons with Disabilities in the new European Parliament (June 2009)


Press release 24 April 2009
EU must stop disabling development co-operation
IDDC welcomes the European Parliament's call for inclusive development co-operation


 Participation at the Inter-Agency Support Group meeting in New York (March 2009)


OHCHR study on National Frameworks for the Promotion and Protection of the Human Rights of Persons with Disabilities [Human Rights Council resolution 10/7]

  • Download Human Rights Council resolution 10/7 here
  • Download all contributions (including IDDC's) here 

IDDC present at the first meeting of the Expert Committee on the CRPD (February 2009)


Looking back on a successful panel discussion on Inclusive Development (February 2009)


Parliamentarians sign IDDC Statement on the European elections (January 2009)


Press release 30 April 2008
3 May: A New Dawn for Disability Rights


IDDC Reflection Paper - Contribution for the 5th Session of the Ad Hoc Committee January 2005: Inclusive Development and the Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities


IDDC Reflection Paper (May 2004) - Inclusive Development and the UN Convention

 
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