Speakers' Notes for 6 April Side Event on Independent Living
Goal:
community livingSpeakers:
Catalina Devandas, UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Chair
Oana Gîrlescu, Lawyer, MDAC. “Moldova: Successes and challenges in deinstitutionalisation”
Derrick Kizza, Executive Director, MHU. “Uganda: Peer support, micro-finance and preventing abuse"
Miroslav Cangár, FORUM: “Slovakia: Measuring quality in community-based services”
Dragana Ciric Milovanovic, Director, MDRI-S. “Tackling the problem of trans-institutionalisation”
Emina Ćerimović, Researcher, Human Rights Watch. “Deinstitutionalisation of children with disabilities”
Steven Allen, Campaigns Director, MDAC. “Minimum State obligations under Article 19 – law, policy, practice”
Statement by Jonas Ruškus, CRPD Committee Member
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