inclusive education

Oral submission to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

In 2003 MDAC conducted training on the European Convention on Human Rights as it applies to people with psycho-social (mental health) disabilities and intellectual disabilities. You can download this pack in several languages. Please note that there have been more recent decisions since the preparation of this pack, and you should therefore always ensure that you have access to the most up-to-date decisions.

In May 2008, the Hungarian organisations of persons with disabilities and their supporters decided to form a Disability Caucus for the purposes of making civil society’s own, parallel report on the status of the rights of persons with disabilities vis-à-vis the Convention. Following the model of the International Disability Caucus, which was a key party in the negotiations towards the Convention, the Hungarian Caucus is a flexible, non-hierarchic association, based on solidarity and subsidiarity.