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CENTRE FOR DISABILITY LAW AND POLICY PUBLIC LECTURE & SEMINAR SERIES 2012-2013

The CDLP endeavors to make its seminars and events open to all in the academic community and to other interested parties where possible. Major events are video-recorded and posted to this website (subject to permission by the speakers).

For further information, contact info.cdlpnuigalway.ie or call 091 - 495888

May 2013 - Inclusive Development – the way forward and the intersection with gender mainstreaming

The CDLP welcomed guest speaker Charlotte McClain-Nhlapo, Coordinator, Office for Disability and Inclusive Development, USAID to the centre on the 15th of May, 2013. We also heard from Dr Nata Duvvury from the School of Political Science and Sociology, NUI Galway 

Charlotte has served as an expert on a number of UN Committees in the areas of child rights, the right to food and the rights of people with disabilities. She also represented the National Human Rights Institutions at the UN during the process of developing the UN Convention for People with Disabilities. She has lectured and presented on human rights and development issues on numerous occasions and in a range forums.

January 2013 - Axel Leblois Discusses the G3ICT Initiative 

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On 25 January 2013, President and Executive Director of the G3ict initiative (the Global Initiative for Inclusive Information and Communication Technologies), Axel Leblois gave a talk to the current International and Comparative Disability Law and Policy LLM class as part of their course on Contemporary Challenges in Disability Policy run by Donal Rice.
 
The seminar took place in the Centre for Disability Law and Policy and the students and staff learned about the workings of this unique organization. G3ict is an Advocacy Initiative of the UN GAID, the United Nations Global Alliance for ICT and Development, launched in December 2006 in cooperation with the Secretariat for the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at UN DESA. Its mission < http://g3ict.org/about/mission>  is to facilitate and support the implementation of the dispositions of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on the accessibility of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) and assistive technologies. G3ict relies on an international network of ICT accessibility experts to develop and promote good practices, technical resources and benchmarks for ICT accessibility advocates around the world.

 

November 2012 - Seminar on Independent Living

Elizabeth Kamundia, a graduate of the LLM in International and Comparative Disability Law and Policy 2011/2012, gave a discussion to the current LLM class on her dissertation which looked at Article 19 (independent living) and Kenya. We were particularly honoured to have Elizabeth back at the CDLP to talk about her dissertation.

Martin Naughtan also spoke on the opic of independent. Martin is a long-time disability advocate/campaigner.  He is one of the people brought Centre for Independent Living to Ireland and a champion of the independent living movement. He spoke about advocacy and working in the field of disability rights.  

Please see videos of both presentations here:

November 2012 - CDLP Brown bag seminar - E-Acessibility: Legislation Review and Building the Business Case

The Centre was thrilled to host Robert Huffaker for a number of days in early November 2012. Robert is a newly admitted external PhD student at NUIG and is a Marie Curie Fellow with the Disability Rights Expanding Accessible Markets (DREAM) Programme.

Robert held a seminar at the Centre, which discussed his studies, which focus on expanding European markets of accessible Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), in relation to consumers with disabilities. It included the significance of social inclusion and accessibility in the context of disability, as well as research on the business case for European reform.
Based on the assumption that doing the right thing for Europeans with disabilities is not only morally necessary, but is also good for European business, his work will explore the market potential for the ICT sector to grow its global reach if its products and services become sufficiently accessible.

Robert's continuing research will underpin the cost-benefit analysis of businesses, pertaining to examples of Web Accessibility, and Self-Service Terminals (SSTs), who endeavor in the field of eAccessibility, illuminating the positives of ensuring universal access to persons with disabilities (PwD) as defined by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities of 2006 (UN CRPD).

Please see video of the seminar below:

October 2012 - Open society Initiative for Southern Africa and Southern African Litigation Centre Visiting Seminar

 
Pictured are Louise Olivier (middle row 3rd from left) and Nicole Fritz (middle row 4th from left) with staff, LLM students and colleagues at the Centre.

The Centre was delighted to welcome Louise Olivier, Law Programme Manager with the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA), and Nicole Fritz, Executive Director of the Southern African Litigation Centre (SALC) on 4 October 2012. They were kind enough to offer an informal seminar on their work to students and staff.

OSISA is part of network of autonomous Open Society Foundations, established by George Soros. OSISA is a growing African institution committed to deepening democracy, protecting human rights and enhancing good governance in the region. In pursuance of this vision, OSISA's mission is to initiate and support programmes working towards open society ideals, and to advocate for these ideals in southern Africa. Louise talked about the ever-evolving disability rights work of OSI.

SALC promotes and advances human rights and the rule of law in southern Africa primarily through strategic litigation support and capacity building.  SALC's main areas of thematic focus include: HIV/AIDS, International criminal justice, media defence, prisoners' rights, and right to information.  SALC also have a section on disability rights.


 

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