Conference Update
With the AFDO conference so close, it’s time to get in quickly and register! The conference is shaping up to be a major event on the disability calendar, with the aim of promoting lively discussion about the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disability (UN CRPD). The five keynote speakers will be:
Tina Minkowitz: Centre for the Human Rights of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry – “The UN Convention as a Way Forward to Liberation”
Robyn Hunt: Commissioner, New Zealand Human Rights Commission – “From Strategy to Convention: Implementing Disability Rights in New Zealand”
Rhonda Galbally: Chair of the National People with Disabilities and Carer Council – “Secure Funding is a Key to Unlocking the UNCRPD”
Graeme Innes: Human Rights Commissioner and Disability Discrimination Commissioner, Australian Human Rights Commission – “Using the CRPD for Practical Change”
Ron McCallum: Professor of Labour Law and former Dean of Law at the University of Sydney – “The United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Its Inaugural Meeting”
Closing remarks at the conference will be delivered by Bill Shorten, Parliamentary Secretary for Disabilities and Children’s Services.
In the afternoon sessions, however, it’s all over to you! We’ll have three streams on the UN Convention – Liberation (what does the UN CRPD do to liberate us and how can we use it?), Capacity Building (how can the disability sector work better to use the UN CRPD?) and Monitoring (what do we need to do to make sure the government lives up to its promise to work towards the goals of the UN CRPD?). Panellists will provide us with food for thought before we have a workshop discussing ideas to move forward. These ideas will go into a report for government.
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