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Magdi Birtha

 

Contact Information

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

Qualificaitons

Master’s degree in Sociology, 2010 (ELTE University, Budapest)

Biography

Magdi is Marie Curie Research Fellow and PhD candidate at the Centre for Disability Law and Policy at National University of Ireland, Galway. Magdi’s research in the frame of the DREAM project is focusing on the National and European Monitoring of the CRPD and civil society involvement. She will be researching the process of creating a self-sustaining triangular mechanism to promote, protect and monitor the implementation of the Convention by collecting promising international practices. She has a special focus on the active and effective involvement of persons with disabilities in policy and decision-making processes (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.

Previously Magdi worked on the implementation and monitoring mechanisms of the CRPD at EU level as a trainee at the Unit of Rights of Persons with Disabilities at the European Commission. In 2008-2010 she was Hungarian coordinator of the two years Grundtvig Multilateral EU project ’My Opinion My Vote’ focusing on the political participation and voting rights of persons with learning disabilities.

Magdi became dedicated to disability rights while working as a volunteer in a group home maintained by the Hungarian Down Foundation in Budapest between 2006 and 2008. Assisting the everyday life and building up personal relations with a number of persons with intellectual disabilities ensured her better understanding regarding the barriers they have to face in our society. She worked closely with a number of advocacy NGOs and DPOs raising awareness on the right to vote, organizing training sessions on citizenship and participation, and monitoring human rights in big institutions all around Hungary. 

She holds a Master’s degree in Sociology from ELTE University, Budapest; her dissertation focused on “Ethnomethodology of the category ’intellectually disabled”.

 Papers/Presentations/Conferences

Presentations

 

19 March 2013 - 'Nothing about CRPD monitoring without us!' - case study on Article 33 CRPD implementation in Zambia presented at the Australian Human Rights Centre, Sydney http://www.ahrcentre.org/node/471

11-12 March 2013, Co-training with Mental Disability Advocacy Centre on implementation of Article 33 CRPD, Chisinau, Moldova

29 January 2013 - Presentation at the DREAM network event ('Exploring the Zambian solution to implement Article 33 CRPD'), Maastricht, the Netherlands

 Forthcoming

 

3 April 2013 - Seminar at the New Zealand Centre for Human Rights Law, Policy and Practice, Auckland (’Challenges and key factors of effective civil society participation in policy and decision-making processes’)

 4 April 2013 - Seminar at the Auckland University of Technology ('CRPD as a tool for change - participation of persons with disabilities')

 April 2013 - Presentation at the Pacific Rim International Conference on Disability and Diversity, Hawai'i (’Nothing about CRPD monitoring without us’ – case study on the involvement of the disability movement in policy-making in Zambia)

 May 2013 - Presentation at the Nordic Network on Disability Research conference, Turku, Finland (“Nothing about CRPD monitoring without us’ – case study on the involvement of the disability movement in policy-making in Zambia”)

 

Papers/Articles

 April 2013 (forthcoming) - “Nothing about CRPD monitoring without us’ – case study on the involvement of the disability movement in policy-making in Zambia”, In: African Yearbook on Disability Rights, University of Pretoria

 March 2013 - UN CRPD as a real engine of change – training experiences from Moldova on http://disabilityrightsresearch.com/2013/03/15/un-crpd-as-a-real-engine-of-change-training-experiences-from-moldova/

 December 2012 – ’Remove another barrier! – Literature of persons with intellectual disabilities’ on http://disabilityrightsresearch.com/2012/12/04/remove-another-barrier-literature-of-persons-with-intellectual-disabilities/

 September 2012 – ’How constructive a dialogue could be? – Hungary’s State Report has been reviewed by the UN CRPD Committee’ on http://disabilityrightsresearch.com/2012/09/24/how-constructive-a-dialogue-could-be/

 April 2012 – ’The value of life – Eugenics strikes back as human right in the 21st century?’ on http://disabilityrightsresearch.com/2012/04/30/the-value-of-life-eugenics-strikes-back-as-human-right-in-the-21st-century/

Mar 2012 - "Nothing about us without us!" on http://disabilityrightsresearch.com/2012/03/08/nothing-about-us-without-us/

 Dec 2011 - Europe’s Way Out of the Crisis: A Gloomy Celebration of the European Day of People with Disabilities on http://disabilitylawnews.blogspot.co.at/2011/12/europes-way-out-of-crisis-gloomy.html

 Summer schools:

 The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; How to use it. The 4th International Summer School, NUI Galway, Ireland, 18-23 June 2012

Mental Disability Law in Practice, Summer University, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, 19-30 July 2010

Publications in Hungarian:

February 2013 – ’Mennyire lehet konstruktív egy párbeszéd? – Az ENSZ CRPD Bizottságának felülvizsgálata a Fogyatékosjogi Egyezmény magyarországi végrehajtásáról’ In: Fundamentum (Hungarian Human Rights Journal, website: http://www.indok.hu/kezdolap)

 
 

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