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EU Disability Law and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

  • Seminar for legal practitioners, NGOs and Equality Bodies, Academics
  • Organised in the framework of the EaSI Programme (2014-2020)

, 26 September 2016 – 27 September 2016
Language:
, International Sign Language (simultaneous interpretation)
Event number:
416DV81

Areas of law:

Objective

The aim of this seminar is to provide participants with the necessary knowledge and legal tools to use the UN Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) combined with relevant EU law in their daily practice.

Key topics

  • The UNCRPD: purpose, general principles and rights, formal and substantive relationship with EU law
  • Implementing the UNCRPD in EU law: legislative measures, direct effect, case law of the CJEU
  • Legal capacity under Art.12 UNCRPD: guardianship and supported decisionmaking
  • Access to justice under Art. 13 UNCRPD
  • Disability in employment: reasonable accommodation and how to tackle discrimination on grounds of disability
  • Participation in political, public and cultural life – substantive obligations under the UNCRPD

Who should attend?

Legal practitioners, representatives of NGOs and equality bodies with a legal background, law academics from an EU Member State and those candidate countries and EEA/EFTA countries which have decided to participate in the Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme.

This event will be streamed live. No registration is required.

Livestream

Please use the following link to access the stream: https://stream.era-comm.eu/uncrpd/




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Background Documentation
Documentation is available here for logged in participants at this event.

IMPORTANT NOTE


Important note
No seminar fee. Participation on selection. Selected participants will receive a significant contribution to their travel and accommodation costs.

ORGANISER


Conference Organisers
ERA (Dr Luísa Lourenço) on behalf of the European Commission (contracting authority), with the support of the EFC European Consortium of Foundations on Human Rights and Disability and the European Disability Forum


Luísa Lourenço

Assistant:
Barbara Hense

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EU Anti-Discrimination Law
Find out more about this series of seminars on Directives 2000/43 and 2000/78

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