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[Events and Updates]

FRA: New indicators towards the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) has launched a report with indicators about the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). The document is organized in ...

Last update 11 May 2023
New ILO database highlights labour market challenges of persons with disabilities
[Events and Updates]

New ILO database highlights labour market challenges of persons with disabilities

There are an estimated 1 billion persons with disabilities around the world or 15% of the global population. Most of them are of working age. New labour market indicators are now available on ...

Last update 25 Jun 2022
 Strategy for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2021-2030
[Events and Updates]

A new journey for disability rights. The European Commission published the Strategy for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2021-2030

The European Commission has published the Strategy for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2021-2030. This document outlines proposals and areas of work aiming at improving the living conditions ...

Last update 4 Aug 2021
Equality in the EU 20 years on from the initial implementation of the equality directives. Image
[Events and Updates]

European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA): published the report on "Equality in the EU 20 years on from the initial implementation of the equality directives"

European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) has presented a report-opinion titled “Equality in the EU 20 years on from the initial implementation of the equality directives”. It ...

Last update 14 May 2021
[Publications]

Peace Human Rights Governance (VOL. 1, NO. 1, March, 2017)

AA.VV. (2017)

Rivista Peace Human Rights Governance (PHRG)

Last update 14 Mar 2024
[Events and Updates]

European Disability Forum: Human Rights 2020 Report EDF. The impact of Covid-19 on people with disabilities

The European Disability Forum (EDF) published the Human Rights 2020 Report on the impact of Covid-19 on people with disabilities.  Before Covid-19, over 28% of the more than 100 million ...

Last update 15 Feb 2021
COVID-19 public health mural in Mathare slum in Nairobi, Kenya April 14, 2020
[Databases]

United Nations System

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) Statement on the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and economic, social and cultural rights, 17 April 2020.  Department of ...

Last update 30 Nov 2020
[Events and Updates]

Right to education: depriving autistic pupil of statutory specialised learning support amounted to discrimination based on her disability

In Chamber judgment in the case of G.L v. Italy. (on 10 September 2020), the European Court of Human Rights held, unanimously, that there had been a violation of Article 14 (prohibition of ...

Last update 13 Oct 2020
[Events and Updates]

Calls for Abstracts: Educational and school inclusion in the European framework - Minority Reports. Cultural Disability Studies. Deadline: 30 September 2020

The journal Minority Reports. Cultural Disability Studies devotes the monographic issue 13 / II 2021 to the topic of school and educational inclusion of the students with disability in different ...

Last update 12 Aug 2020
[Events and Updates]

The Launch of the Covid-19 Disability Rights Monitor Dashboard

The Covid-19 Disability Rights Monitor, a coalition of seven organizations engaged in promoting the rights of persons with disabilities, launched, on the 2nd of June 2020, the Covid-19 DRM ...

Last update 11 Jun 2020
Covid - 19
[Events and Updates]

Protect the Rights of Persons with disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic

Appealed European and UN human rights experts Early in this month, the Commissioner for Human Right of the Council of Europe expressed her concern on the specific difficulties that persons with ...

Last update 20 Apr 2020
logo "Bridging the gap"
[Events and Updates]

Annual event “Bridging the Gap – Inclusive Public Policies and Services for Equal Rights of Persons with Disabilities”, Rome 14 November 2019

The European project “Bridging the Gap – Inclusive Public Policies and Services for Equal Rights of Persons with Disabilities” is celebrating its 2019 Annual Event on November 14th ...

Last update 29 Oct 2019
Cover of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights' (ODIHR) “Guidelines on Promoting the Political Participation of Persons with Disabilities”
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ODIHR: Guidelines on Promoting the Political Participation of Persons with Disabilities have been published

The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) has published “Guidelines on Promoting the Political Participation of Persons with Disabilities” with the purpose to ...

Last update 2 May 2019
Seminar in occasion of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities.
[Events and Updates]

The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities published the concluding observations on Italy

The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has published the concluding observations on Italy's initial report regarding the situation of persons with disabilities and related rights ...

Last update 5 Nov 2016