4th international disability summer School videos

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Monday 18th June 2012

President Michael D. Higgins officially opens the Summer School.

The Treaty as a Statement of Transformative Values                                         

Professor Jerome Bickenbach, Swiss Paraplegic Institute & University of Lucerne, Switzerland

People Power: ’Nothing About Us Without Us’ How civil society crafted the convention and its future role in implementation/monitoring (Articles 4.3 & 33.3)

Steven Estey, Canada, DPI Delegation to UN Ad Hoc Committee

The Treaty as a Legal Instrument – How to Use it Interpretative Tools & Policing Reservations

Professor Dennis Driscoll (CDLP), former Legal Advisor to the Department of Foreign Affairs (Dublin)

Tuesday 19th June 2012

Key Rights – Personhood - The Right to Make Your own Decisions & have them Respected by others (Article 12 & Legal Capacity)

Michael Bach, Canada Association for Community Living, Toronto

 Key Rights – Personhood – Models of Supports to enable people exercise their legal capacity

Michael Bach,Canada Association for Community Living, Toronto

The Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality Report on Legal Capacity

David Stanton, T.D., Chair of the Joint Oireachtas (Irish Parliment) Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality. 

Karol Balfe, Amnesty International Ireland and Eilionoir Flynn talk about the Essential Guidelines of Legal Capacity 

Wednesday 20th June

Getting your Own Life: The Right to Live Independently and to be Included in the Community (Article 19)

Camilla Parker, Just Equality, author of "Forgotten Europeans – Forgotten Rights: The Human Rights of Persons Placed in Institutions" (United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights,Europe Regional Office, 2011) and (with Luke Clements)  "The European Union and the Right to Community Living: Structural Funds and the European Union'sObligations under the Convention on  the Rights of Persons with Disabilities"   (Open Society Foundations, 2012)

Protecting People against Violence, Exploitation and Abuse  & the Criminal Process (Article 13)

Eric Rosenthal, Disability Rights International, Washington DC

Disability Interacting with other Identities: Multiple Discrimination, Intersectionability, Disability, Children,  Women and Age

Professor Theresia Degener, Member of the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Thursday 21st June

Primary International Process:  The Disability Convention Monitoring Process- Interacting effectively with the CRPD processes (Articles 34-39)

Andrea Coomber, Interights, London

The Domestic Process: Interacting effectively with New Domestic Processes for Change:(Article 33). New national ’focal point’; new national ’coordinating mechanism’; new national ’framework for monitoring’

Gauthier De Beco, University of Louvain, Belgium

Friday 22nd June

CRPD and World – Connecting Regional Strategies to the achievement of the CRPD: Europe, Africa, Asia, Americas

Eiliónoír Flynn, Senior Researcher, CDLP, Galway

Professor Jerome Bickenbach, University of Lucerne, Switzerland

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