CRPD
– Added Value? -seminaari Helsingissä
Vammaisten Ihmisoikeuskeskus – VIKE järjestää
20.-21.5.2008 Helsingin messukeskuksessa kansainvälisen seminaarin YK:n
vammaisten oikeuksia koskevan yleissopimuksen merkityksistä; painopisteenä
vammaisuus kehityksessä.
Ilmoittautuminen:
Sähköpostitse 9.5.2008 mennessä osoitteeseen seminar@vike.fi
. Osallistumismaksu on 40 euroa (henkilökohtaisille avustajille vapaapääsy).
Maksamalla ilmoittautumisviestin vastauksena tulevan laskun vahvistat paikkasi.
Osallistumismaksua ei palauteta. Osallistumismaksu sisältää seminaarikansion,
kahvitarjoilun, cocktail-tilaisuuden tarjoilut ja keskiviikon lounaan.
Seminaarikieli on englanti. Esitykset tulkataan suomeksi (simultaanitulkkaus). Seminaarissa myös viittomakielen tulkkaus. Seminaaripaikalla on yleisavustaja.
Lisätietoa: www.vike.fi
In English:
CRPD Added Value? -Seminar in Helsinki
VIKE is organizing an International Seminar on the Implications of the
United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities -
with Special Focus on Disability in Development; on 20.-21.5.2008 in Helsinki
(Fair Center / Hotel Holiday Inn Helsinki). The seminar will be held in English and the translation into Finnish will be available.
Backround of VIKE Seminar
After the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) by the United Nations General Assembly in 2006 the world is waiting. What will be the implications of the new convention and what can we all do to make the life of persons with disabilities more respectful around the world?
The special focus of the seminar is on the situation of persons with disabilities living in the developing countries. Does international cooperation guaranteed in CRPD have a role in the development of these countries? How about human rights based approaches, does CRPD help in elaborating those?
These are some of the questions that the Seminar: “CRPD - Added Value?” adresses. By organizing this seminar, The Center for Human Rights of Persons with Disabilities (VIKE) wants to increase the level of knowledge on CRPD and, through that, contribute to the better realization of human rights of persons with disabilities.
Minister of Justice of Finland, Ms. Tuija Brax, will open the seminar. The keynote speaker of the seminar is Professor Michael Stein, Executive Director of the Harvard Project on Disability in USA. Professor Stein is an internationally recognized disability rights expert, who participated in the drafting of a United Nations disability human rights treaty. The main speaker from Finland is Mr. Martin Scheinin, Professor of Constitutional and International Law and the Director of the Institute for Human Rights, Åbo Akademi University. Other speakers include: Ms. Jarna Petman - Senior Lecturer in International Law in Helsinki University, Mr. Ronald Wiman - Senior Social Development Advisor for the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, and Ms. Tuija Halmari - Executive
Director of Finnish Disabled People’s International Development Association, FIDIDA. In addition to this we will have many other speakers who will have the opportunity to bring their own view to the discussion.
The seminar is open to all actors in the field. Especially persons with disabilities, organizations of persons with disabilities, government representatives, researchers, students, and other persons interested in the situation and rights of persons with disabilities, are warmly welcomed to participate. The seminar will be held in English and the translation into Finnish will be available.
Registration
Seminar registration will be handled via e-mail to seminar@vike.fi. Please submit your e-mail booking by 9th May 2008. The registration fee is 40 euros. A bill will be sent out in response to registering via e-mail. In paying the registration fee each place for attending the seminar will be validated. (Personal assistants will have free access). The registration fee includes seminar materials, coffee and cocktails on Tuesday and lunch on Wednesday. Please note that the registration fee is non-refundable and that there is a limited amount of places.
General assistance is available at the seminar location. Please let us know if you have your own personal assistant as you book.
More information about this event is available at the VIKE website: www.vike.fi
SEMINAR PROGRAM:
Seminar Place: Hotel Holiday Inn Helsinki, Helsinki Fair Centre (Meeting Room 208)
Address: Messuaukio 1, 00520 Helsinki
Tuesday 20 May 2008 (Day 1: CRPD in Global South)
(Chairperson: Mr.
Kalle Könkkölä, Executive Director, The Threshold Association)
10.30
Press
Conference
11.00
Registration
of Participants
12.00
Opening
Remarks - Ms. Tuija Brax, Minister of Justice of Finland
12.15
Global
Development of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities – Mr. Kalle
Könkkölä, Executive Director, The Threshold Association
12.30
CRPD in a Nutshell – Article 32 and Beyond - Mr. Michael Stein,
Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, USA
13.15
Challenges and Opportunities for Mainstreaming
Disability in the Development Agenda -
Mr. Ronald Wiman, Senior Social Development Advisor, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland
13.45
Coffee /
Refreshments
14.15
How Development Cooperation Can Facilitate
Advocacy for the Implementation of CRPD in Developing countries - Ms. Tuija Halmari, Executive Director, Finnish
Disabled People’s International Development Association (FIDIDA)
14.45
Panel
discussion: How to turn the CRPD into practice - Southern DPOs point of view
– Ms. Yetnebersh Nigussie, Ethiopian Center for Disability and Development
ECDD; Mr. Ngin Saorath, Cambodian Disabled People´s Organisation CDPO; Mrs.
Constance Sachelo, Zambia National Association of the Physically Disabled ZNAPD
15.45
Presentation
of an Academic Study on Human Rights Based Approach to Disability in
Development - Ms. Hisayo Katsui, Senior Researcher, Institute for Human Rights,
Åbo Akademi University
16.00
Concluding
Words
- Chairperson Mr. Kalle Könkkölä
16.30-18.00 Cocktails
Wednesday 21 May 2008 (Day 2: CRPD Challenges for the Future)
(Chairperson: Mr. Pekka Hätinen - Finnish Association
of People with Mobility Disabilities)
08.30
Registration
09.00
Opening
Remarks
– Chairperson Mr. Pekka Hätinen
09.10
CRPD in Litigation - Mr. Michael Stein,
Professor of Law, Harvard Law
School, USA
10.20
Break
10. 30
Taking Rights
Seriously – Impacts of CRPD - Ms. Jarna Petman, Senior Lecturer of
International Law (University of Helsinki); Researcher, Erik Castrén Institute
of International Law and Human Rights
11.15
Survey on
the Ratification Processes of
CRPD in 7 European States – Outcomes
- Mr.
Riku Virtanen, Researcher
11.45
Lunch
13.00
CRPD
Ratification Process in Finland - Representative of Ministry for Foreign
Affairs of Finland
13.45
CRPD in
the Framework of Human Rights Treaties ? Added Value or Watering Down Existing
Standards? – Mr. Martin Scheinin, Professor
of Constitutional and International Law, Director of the Institute for Human
Rights, Åbo Akademi University
14.30
VIKE - a
Defender of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities – Mr. Jukka Kumpuvuori,
Researcher, Institute for Human Rights, Åbo Akademi University
14.45-15.00 Concluding Words
–
Chairperson Mr. Pekka Hätinen
Organizer: VIKE – The Center for Human Rights of Persons with
Disabilities
Seminar Partners: Abilis Foundation and FIDIDA - Finnish Disabled
People’s International Development Association
Supported by the Finland´s Slot Machine Association (RAY) and
Official Development Aid from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland
VIKE reserves the right to changes.
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