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Kiev 24 May 20111 Presentation by Ingemar Färm, board member of European Disability Forum (EDF) PROTECTION OF THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES IN.

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1 Kiev 24 May 20111 Presentation by Ingemar Färm, board member of European Disability Forum (EDF) PROTECTION OF THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES IN EUROPE - the factual situation encountered in the Council of Europe - major international campaigns in this field

2 Kiev 24 May 20112 1. WHERE IT STARTED 1948 The UN Declaration on Human Rihgts

3 Kiev 24 May 20113 2. FIRST INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN Establishing an international disability movement - 1922 Rehabilitation International - 1951 World Federation of the Deaf - 1951/1964 World Blind Union - 1953: The World Veteran Federation -1965 World Federation of Hemophilia -1970 and 80ies: Disabled Peoples International (DPI), Inclusion International, International Hard of Hearing Federation, World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry, International Diabetes Federation, International Bureau for Epilepsy

4 Kiev 24 May 20114 3. RESULTS OF FIRST INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN 1981 The International Disability Year 1982 The World Action Program on Disability 1983-1992 The Disability Decade

5 Kiev 24 May 20115 4. SECOND INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN Launching the idea of a convention on disability - 1987 Half time evaluation of the decade - 1990 UN working group to elaborate draft Standard Rules

6 Kiev 24 May 20116 5. RESULTS OF THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN 1993 The UN Standard Rules

7 Kiev 24 May 20117 6. THIRD INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN Implementation of the Standard Rules - 1994 The UN Rapporteur - 1996 Agenda 22

8 Kiev 24 May 20118 7. FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN We want a convention - 2000/51 The UN resolution - 2001 The initiative of Mexico - 2001-06 The UN Ad Hoc committee

9 Kiev 24 May 20119 8. RESULTS OF THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN 2006 The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with disabilities

10 Kiev 24 May 201110 9. THE FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN Implementation of the convention - 2007 and onwards: Activities of the international disability movement - 2009 and onwards: Agenda 50

11 Kiev 24 May 201111 10. THE FACTUAL SITUATION 2011 - Signing and ratification - Translation - Reports to the UN committee on the rights of persons with disabilities in Geneva - Alternative reports - Some national examples

12 Kiev 24 May 201112 11. CHALLENGES - Definition of disability - Involvement of the disability movement in the process - The demands in the different articles

13 Kiev 24 May 201113 THANK YOU FOR HAVING LISTENED TO ME


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