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Magdi Birtha

Contact Information

Tel.: 353 (0)91 49 4009
Office: CDLP, Block T, NUI Galway.
email: magdolna.birthanuigalway.ie

Biography

Magdi’s topic in the frame of the DREAM project is focusing on the National and European Monitoring of the CRPD (Article 33.2). She will be researching the process of creating a self-sustaining framework as well as best practices from all around the world regarding independent human rights monitoring mechanisms and the active and effective involvement of persons with disabilities in the whole process (Article 33.3 CRPD). She is following the implementation of the Convention at the EU level and aiming to provide recommendations by the end of her three years on ways of effective monitoring mechanism. This is certainly a key element in the successful implementation of the Convention.
 
Magdi has developed a great interest during her studies and first professional experiences in disability-related issues and human rights. She holds a Master’s degree in Sociology, completed with a dissertation on “Ethnometodology of the category Intellectually disabled”. Magdi became interested in active policy making and understanding the complexity of life circumstances, needs and problems of persons with disabilities when she first started to work as a volunteer for an NGO in Budapest (Hungary) during her Sociology Studies. She then had the opportunity at the same organization to coordinate a 2 years European project focusing on the political participation and voting rights of persons with learning disabilities. Having the opportunity to work as a stagiaire at the Unit of Rights of Persons with Disabilities at the European Commission for the period March-July 2011 allowed her to get more familiar with the implementation and monitoring mechanisms of the UN CRPD at the European level.
 
 

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