Overview

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Overview

• Context and EU Relevance
• Social Protection
• and Other Forms of Support and Assistance
• Employment and Necessary Pre-Conditions
• Using the Convention

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Context and EU Relevance
History of the Convention

• 2001 December Ad-Hoc Committee
• 2004 May 3rd session drafting
  begins
• 2006 December 13 adopted by General Assembly
• 2008 May 3 entry into force

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Context and EU Relevance
Process and Involvement

• Ad-Hoc Committee 1st session August 2002
• Ad-Hoc Committee subsequent sessions
• International Disability Caucus
• Articles 4 and 33

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Context and EU Relevance
Purpose

• Article 1
• Visibility
• Specificity
• Information
• New Rights ?

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Context and EU Relevance
EU Relevance

• EU role in negotiations
• EU Signature 30 March 2007
• EU conclusion / ratification
• Implications

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Context and EU Relevance
EU Relevance
Lithuania Convention Optional Protocol
Signature and Ratification
Latvia Convention Optional Protocol
Signature and Ratification
Finland Convention Optional Protocol Signature
Estonia Convention Signature
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Social Protectionand Other Forms of Support
Assistance
Poverty

• Bi-directional link
• Statistics
• Marginalisation

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Social Protectionand Other Forms of Support
Assistance
Adequate Standard of Living - Article 28(1)

• Food, clothing, housing
• Clean water Article 28(2)
• Without discrimination
• Safeguard and Promote

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Social Protectionand Other Forms of Support
Assistance
Social Protection - Article 28(2)

• Access to social protection and poverty reduction
  programmes

Access to public housing programmes
Access to retirement benefits and programmes
Services, devices and assistance for
disability-related needs
Assistance with disability-related expenses if
living in poverty
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Social Protectionand Other Forms of Support
Assistance
Independent Personal Mobility Article 20

• Aids, devices, technologies and live assistance

Mobility training
Market shaping
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Social Protectionand Other Forms of Support
Assistance
Habilitation Rehabilitation - Article 26

• Aims and underlying principles

Early provision
Voluntary and as local as possible
Training of professionals
Availability and use of assistive devices and
technologies
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Social Protectionand Other Forms of Support
Assistance
Health - Article 25

• Equal basis

Disability-specific
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Employment and Necessary Pre-Conditions
The Current Position

• Statistics
• Link with Poverty

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Employment and Necessary Pre-Conditions
Work and Employment Article 27

• Open, inclusive and accessible labour market
• Freedom of choice and acceptance
• Equal basis
• Promotion of opportunities

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Employment and Necessary Pre-Conditions
Work and Employment Article 27
Equal Basis

• Prohibition of discrimination
• includes reasonable accommodation
• Conditions and remuneration
• Vocational guidance and training
• Labour and trade union rights

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Employment and Necessary Pre-Conditions
Work and Employment Article 27
Promotion of Opportunities

• Finding employment and career advancement
• Self-employment and co-operatives
• Work experience
• Private sector promote employment
• Public sector employment

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Employment and Necessary Pre-Conditions
Education Article 24

• Inclusive general education system
• Non-discrimination
• - including reasonable
  accommodation
• Life skills, including mobility skills
• Sensory impairments

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Employment and Necessary Pre-Conditions
Participation in Community Life

• Accessibility Article 9

Community Living Article 19
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Employment and Necessary Pre-Conditions
Non-Discrimination Article 5

• Cross-cutting

Less favourable treatment
Includes Reasonable Accommodation Article 2
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Using the Convention
Ratification of the Convention

• Shadow reports Article 35
• Involvement consultation Article 4(3)
• Monitoring mechanism Article 33(2)
• Capacity building Article 29

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Using the Convention
Ratification of Optional Protocol

• Individual and group complaints Article 1
  OP
• Exhaustion of domestic remedies
• Facts at the time OP came into force

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Using the Convention
Signature but no Ratification

• Domestic lobbying
• EU funding, Law and good practice

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