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Disability Rights are Human Rights
25 Mar 2024
Happening On
20/05/2024
Disability Rights are Human Rights: Showcasing the Lived Experiences of People with Intellectual Disability and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Date: Monday 20th May 2024
Time: 11am to 2.30pm
Venue: Boole Library, University College Cork
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The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), ratified by Ireland in 2018, gives people with disabilities the same rights as everyone else. The challenge now is to turn ideas and words about the CRPD into action, and to make rights real.
The id+ Project invites you to an event that celebrates:
- The publication of Rights in Practice for People with a Learning Disability: Stories of Citizenship, edited by Liz Tilley and Jan Walmsley
and
- Responses of students from the id+ Project’s Certificate in Disability-Inclusive Practice to the CRPD.
The purpose of the event is to:
- Create awareness of the CRPD and what needs to be done to put CRPD rights into practice.
- Provide an understanding of what the CRPD and rights mean to people with intellectual disabilities.
- Bring together allies from different areas to work together to make CRPD rights real for people with ID.
Speakers include:
- Graduates and current students of UCC's Certificate in Disability-Inclusive Practice
- Prof. Mary Donnelly, UCC School of Law
- Prof. Jan Walmsley, UK independent expert in inclusive research & practice and UCC Adjunct Professor
- Marion Wilkinson, National Disability Authority