FROM SPAIN TO BELGIUM: THE DISABILITY INTERGROUP EXPLORES THE JOB YET TO BE DONE

What were the main issues raised?

Achievements of the Spanish Presidency: advancement of the work on the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) and its Protocol; horizontal inclusion of disability in the Europe 2020 Strategy and the new Disability Strategy; informal ministerial meeting in Zaragoza; approval by the Council of the Resolution on the new framework on disability;

• Plans for the Belgian Presidency: Conference with the collaboration of the European Commission on the implementation of the UNCRPD; developing the new Disability Framework; roundtable on Poverty and Social Exclusion to show connection with disability;

• New Disability Strategy and its differences from the Disability Action Plan;

• Code of Conduct of the UNCRPD;

• Role of the civil society in cooperation with the European presidency;

• EDF expectations from the new Disability Strategy;

• Growing rate of violence against woman with disabilities in the EU and invisibility of this issue;

• Multiple discrimination of woman and girls with disabilities;

• Priorities of FEMM Committee of the European Parliament;

• Studies funded by European Commission and other activities.

Download full reports from Disability Intergroup meetings:

 

•  23 June 2010

•  8 July 2010

Next meetings :

 

• 22 September 2010, Strasbourg- with the Freedom Drivers

• 28 September 2010, Brussels- with the Belgian Presidency

Read more:

• DISABILITY INTERGROUP WEBSITE

• VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN: FORCED STERILIZATION OF WOMEN WITH DISABILITIES IS A REALITY IN EUROPE

• EDF IN THE SAME BOAT WITH THE SPANISH AND BELGIAN PRESIDENCIES TO PUSH FORWARD RIGHTS OF EUROPEAN CITIZENS WITH DISABILITIES