2010 promises to be MDAC’s busiest year so far. Together with our NGO partners, we will continue our strategic litigation and advocacy work in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia and Estonia. This year, MDAC is stepping up our focus on implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). A project funded by the UK Government will start in April 2010 to research how governments in Europe are setting up independent bodies to monitor the implementation of the CRPD. In addition, funding from the Zennström Philanthropies will enable us to deepen our focus on legal capacity, one of the key issues of the CRPD. Zennström Philanthropies is also supporting a new project on assessing the ways in which inspectorates are monitoring mental health and social care institutions, and MDAC will be able to assist them to strengthen their competencies in this area.
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Oliver's blog
21 October - legal capacity day at the UN
10am, Wednesday 21 October 2009. Hello!
csp - day 3
10am, Friday 4 September. Delegates are piling in, from having tanked up with coffee at the Vienna Café which is just outside the huge conference room 4 where this meeting is taking place. It’s also where the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) was negotiated.
csp day 2 - afternoon session on economic crisis
3pm. Here we are at the “informal Session on Emerging Issue: The global economic crisis, poverty and the implementation of the Convention” The Co-Chair is again H. E. Amb. Jim McLay (New Zealand). He says that two strands: pwd are over-represented among the very poor, and they are disproportionally affected by the economic crisis: what can we do about it? MDG on poverty will not be achieved without a focus on people with disabilities. What are we going to do about this, and what can we do?
