IDA held a seminar on Disability Rights Monitoring to the CRPD Committee and other human rights treaty bodies in Geneva on January 7 and 8 2010.
Participants during the opening session of the seminar
This seminar is part of a process that will lead to the production of a guidance document targeting national disability NGOs. Beyond disability rights monitoring in the UN treaty bodies, the seminar will also look at how to use the Universal Periodic Review, the Special Procedures as well as the individual communications procedure foreseen in the Optional Protocol to the CRPD.
The full report of the seminar will soon be available.
Presentations:
- Presentation on reporting guidelines, Ana Pelaez (CRPD Committee member in charge of coordinating the work of the reporting guidelines): Power point version English/Spanish or Word version English/Spanish
- Rights of Persons with disabilities in the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), John Fisher (ARC International):
UPR Action Alert and UPR 6th session, Recommendations
- Individual communications in the UN treaty system and role of NGOs in this system:
Anita Trimaylova (OHCHR Petitions Unit): Power point version or Word version
Padraig Hughes (Equality Programme, Interrights): Strategic litigation: Power point version or Word version and Treaty bodies Exhaustion
Programme and background documents:
Draft programme: English/ Spanish
Background document on Human Rights monitoring mechanisms in the UN system: English/Spanish
Guidelines for session on parallel working groups: English/Spanish
Questionnaire to be answered by participants to the seminar: English/Spanish
Seminar on Disability Rights Monitoring (January 2010)
IDA held a seminar on Disability Rights Monitoring to the CRPD Committee and other human rights treaty bodies in Geneva on January 7 and 8 2010.
Participants during the opening session of the seminar
The full report of the seminar will soon be available.
Presentations:
- Presentation on reporting guidelines, Ana Pelaez (CRPD Committee member in charge of coordinating the work of the reporting guidelines): Power point version English/Spanish or Word version English/Spanish
- Rights of Persons with disabilities in the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), John Fisher (ARC International):
UPR Action Alert and UPR 6th session, Recommendations
- Individual communications in the UN treaty system and role of NGOs in this system:
Anita Trimaylova (OHCHR Petitions Unit): Power point version or Word version
Padraig Hughes (Equality Programme, Interrights): Strategic litigation: Power point version or Word version and Treaty bodies Exhaustion
Programme and background documents:
Draft programme: English/ Spanish
Background document on Human Rights monitoring mechanisms in the UN system: English/Spanish
Guidelines for session on parallel working groups: English/Spanish
Questionnaire to be answered by participants to the seminar: English/Spanish