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Achieving Full Participation Through Universal Design
Many Europeans with disabilities are unable to participate in important areas of society, simply because policies and the built environment are not designed to meet their requirements. Moreover, with the number of elderly people rapidly increasing, European societies will have to accommodate more and more disabled citizens in the future. This book invites member states to: - promote full participation in community life by ensuring access to all areas of society, including the built environment, transport, products and goods, information, public service, education, employment and health care; - implement Universal Design as a strategy to ensure equal and democratic rights in society for all individuals, regardless of age, abilities or cultural background, including persons with disabilities.
Promoting equality and non-discrimination for persons with disabilities
Equality and non-discrimination: A core principle of all human rights and fundamental freedoms. Ensuring equal opportunities for persons with disabilities is an important facilitator of participation and inclusion in society. Both the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) and the Council of Europe Disability Strategy 2017-2023 address equality and equalisation of opportunities for persons with disabilities. Article 5 of the UNCPRD requires States to adopt positive measures aimed at ensuring equality across the substantive rights in the Convention. The Council of Europe Disability Strategy aims at guiding and supporting the activities of Council of Europe member States in their implementation of the UNCRPD and Council of Europe standards regarding disability, and similarly addresses equality and non-discrimination. The overall goal of this study is to analyse the obligations contained in the UNCRPD regarding equality and non-discrimination, and to provide examples of good national practices regarding equality and non-discrimination.
The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
This volume is a systematic commentary on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), and includes analysis of its Optional Protocol. It provides an authoritative discussion on the CRPD and is a definitive resource tool for use in litigation as well as in formulating policy at the domestic and international levels.
Texts Adopted
This publication brings together the texts adopted by the Standing Committee of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe. The Congress, a consultative body of the Council of Europe, is made up of two chambers: one representing local authorities, the other the regions. Its aim is to reinforce democratic structures at local and regional level, and in particular to help the newly-emerging democracies in central and eastern Europe. The Congress adopts three different types of texts: recommendations, opinions and resolutions. Recommendations are proposals to the Committee of Ministers, and their application is left up to each member government. Sometimes they are al...
Prevention of Disabilities Linked to Chronic Diseases
Worldwide diseases have changed to include more chronic conditions, while the majority of current health systems continue to provide treatment and acute care rather than continuity of care. Even more dramatic changes in the health needs of the world population are anticipated, with non-communicable diseases as the leading cause of disability.This publication, drawn up by a Council of Europe Committee of Experts, proposes appropriate means of prevention aimed at reducing disabilities caused by chronic disease. Recommendations made include: the setting up of individualised programmes of psycho-social rehabilitation aimed at the full development of the person, and the adoptions of measures to promote the full integration of people with disabilities into society.
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Summary Record of the 298th Meeting
Opening of the session - Opening statement by the representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights - Report of the Chair on activities undertaken between the sixteenth and seventeenth sessions of the Committee - Solemn declaration by the newly elected members of the Committee - Election of the Chair and other officers of the Committee - Adoption of the Agenda - Organizational matters - Submission of reports by parties to the Convention under article 35 - Cooperation with other United Nations bodies, specialized agencies, organizations of persons with disabilities and other competent bodies.
Encyclopedia of Disability
Presents current knowledge of and experience with disability across a wide variety of places, conditions, and cultures to both the general reader and the specialist.
Europa World Year
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