What is the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Disabled People (CRDP), why do we have it and how can Deaf and Disabled People’s Organisations (DDPOs) use it to advance our rights? – all these questions and more will be answered by a panel of experts as the UK gets ready to be examined again by the CRDP Committee. Watch live or on demand via YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, BSL interpretation and speech to text.
Panel to include:
Catherinne Pedreros Puentes, Secretariat and former member of the CRDP Committee
Tara Flood, UK disabled people’s rights campaigner, involved in drafting the CRDP in 2006.
Linda Burnip, who gave evidence to the CRDP Committee for their special investigation in 2015.
Current member of the CRDP Committee tbc
At the event, organised by Inclusion London ,the England Shadow Report Project will also launch our call for evidence to feed into the next examination of the UK under the CRDP. Watch to find out how you can get involved:
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