Deadline- 30 June 2013
All eligible participants are invited to participate in Conference on Disability Rights in Africa on the theme ‘Overcoming obstacles: Towards the effective implementation of the CRPD in Africa’. This conference is organized by The Centre for Human Rights. Conference will take place in Pretoria, South Africa on 5 November 2013. The goal of this conference is to focus on the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) in the African region.
The conference is aimed at interrogating issues relating to the effective implementation of the CRPD in the African region. It invites abstracts that seek to share theoretical as well as practical perspectives and insights about identifying the obstacles and, ultimately, suggesting ways of overcoming the obstacles at a country, regional or sub-regional level. The conference is multidisciplinary.
Topics covered-
- Regulation of disability-related discrimination under domestic laws
- Compatibility of domestics laws with state obligations under the CRPD
- Reasonable accommodation of people with disabilities in public and private sectors, including in the provision of goods and services
- Exploring a selected article or selected articles of the CRPD with a view to an appraisal of state compliance, identifying gaps and advancing remedial approaches
- Role of courts in respecting, protecting and fulfilling disability rights
- Role of human rights institutions or other similar institutions in the promotion of disability rights and the implementation of the CRPD
- Domestic frameworks for involvement of persons with disabilities and civil society in the implementation of the CRPD
- Domestic frameworks for monitoring implementation of the CRPD
Eligibility-
Scholars, practitioners, disability activists and organizations from Africa working in the field of disability and disability rights are invited to participate
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