Launch event

You can watch the full video from our launch here

 

Videos from each speaker below:

Tara Flood – UK disabled people’s rights campaigner, involved in drafting the CRDP in 2006

Question 1: Why was the Convention necessary?

Question 2: What’s the relationship between the UN Convention and activism?

Gertrude Fefuome – current member of the CRDP Committee

Question 1: What inspired you to join the UN CRPD Committee and what is it like being on the Committee?

Question 2: What advice would you give to Deaf and Disabled People’s Organisations in the UK as we start to prepare our next shadow report?

Catherinne Puentes Ped – CRDP Secretariat who has supported the CRPD Committee for 9 years

Question 1: What has changed as a direct result of the Convention but also what would you say are its limitations?

Question 2: What advice would you give to Deaf and Disabled People’s Organisations in the UK as we start to prepare our next shadow report?

Linda Burnip, Co-founder of Disabled People Against Cuts and responsible for triggering the special inquiry of the UK that took place under the Optional Protocol.

Question 1: Can you briefly explain what the Special Inquiry was and how you triggered it?

Question 2: What is the relationship now between the inquiry and the routine examination of the UK under the Convention?

Svetlana Kotova, Inclusion London’s, Director of Campaigns and Justice

Question 1: How can Deaf and Disabled People and our organisations have a say in what goes in the next shadow report and what access arrangements have you got in place?

Question 2: What will you do with all the information that gets sent in to you?