D.R.P.I. Headlines
- February 21, 2010: The D.R.P.I. India Country Monitoring Report is launched as part of the Silver Jubilee Celebrations of the National Institute for the Mentally Handicapped (N.I.M.H.), Secunderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India. Find out more about the Silver Jubilee Celebrations and read the India Country Report.
- December 3, 2009: Disabled Peoples' International (D.P.I.) congratulates D.R.P.I. on its work to empower people with disabilities in its e-Newsletter on International Day of Persons with Disabilities. Download the D.P.I. e-Report.
- October 28th 2009 (7- 9 pm EDT): D.R.P.I. Webinar. Presenters: Marcia Rioux, D.R.P.I. Co-Director and Paula Pinto, Post-Doctoral Scholar, D.R.P.I.-Canada, presented an interactive webinar about the Disability Rights Promotion International project. View the D.R.P.I. Webinar Powerpoint presentation here.
- August 25 to 29, 2009: Disability rights monitoring Training is held in St. John's, Newfoundland & Labrador.
- August 24, 2009: Training workshop on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights in International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (I.C.E.S.C.R.) related to Disability is held in St. John's, Newfoundland & Labrador.
- August, 2009: Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) approves Phase Three of our D.R.P.I. work. Read more on D.R.P.I.'s goals for Phase Three.
- July 1st, 2009: The D.R.P.I. India final report entitled Monitoring the Human Rights of Persons with Disabilities Country Report India, is now available
- June 12th, 2009: The D.R.P.I. Bolivia final report entitled Monitoring the Human Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Bolivia, is now available
- December 15, 2008 – D.R.P.I. participates in workshop to on persons with disabilities monitoring the U.N. Disability Convention in New Zealand. For more information, download the agenda for the convention (PDF - 33KB).
- September 24-28, 2008 - D.R.P.I. Co-Director Marcia Rioux to lead a course on Human Rights and Disability as part of the PhD program in Critical Disability Studies at the University of Zagreb, Croatia.
- August 23-28, 2008 - D.R.P.I. Co-Director Marcia Rioux presents a keynote address entitled: "Promises and Panaceas: from the idealism of rights to the exercise of rights" and D.R.P.I. participants from Canada, Kenya and India lead a panel presentation entitled: "D.R.P.I.: A Holistic Approach to Monitoring the Human Rights of People with Disabilities in the Global World" (PowerPoint file - 7600 KB) at at the Rehabilitation International (R.I.) World Congress in Quebec City.
- July 14-20, 2008 - D.R.P.I. Bolivia holds a training seminar for disability rights monitors and site coordinators in Santa Cruz
- May 6 and 7, 2008 - D.R.P.I. Canada holds its annual project meeting at York University in Toronto, bringing together members of the disability community and academics from across the country
- December 2007 - The report entitled State of Disabled Peoples' Rights in Kenya (2007) is now available in both PDF format and HTML format
- November 2007 - D.R.P.I. Canada hosts a six-day training seminar for disability rights monitors and site coordinators at York University in Toronto.
- August 2007 - The D.R.P.I. Cameroon final report entitled Study on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Cameroon is now available
- July 2007 - D.R.P.I. Kenya issues a new report entitled State of Disabled Peoples' Rights in Kenya (2007)
- June 2007 - The D.R.P.I Progress Report is now online. You can download the D.R.P.I. Progress Report as a PDF file or you can read the D.R.P.I. Progress Report online in html format.
- March 2007 - D.R.P.I. issues new report: Moving Forward - Progress in Global Disability Rights Monitoring.
- November 6, 2006 - D.R.P.I. Co-Director Bengt Lindqvist speaks at European Disability Forum Conference - Achieving disability rights through mainstreaming at regional and local level ... read more
- D.R.P.I. secures funding for disability rights monitoring in Canada ... read more
Global Headlines
- March 11th, 2010: The Government of Canada ratifies the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (C.R.P.D.). View press release concerning the ratification of the C.R.P.D. from Council of Canadians with Disabilities | View the Canadian government's press release on the ratification of the C.R.P.D. | View the list of countries that have ratified the C.R.P.D. and its Optional Protocol.
- March 4, 2010: European Court of Human Rights orders Russian government to pay 25,000 EUR compensation to a man with mental health disabilities who was unlawfully deprived of legal capacity and arbitrarily detained in a psychiatric hospital for more than six months. This is the largest amount of compensation the Court has ever awarded in a disability rights case. View the press release on the decision of the European Court of Human Rights from Mental Disability Advocacy Centre.
- December 3, 2009: The Government of Canada marked the International Day of Persons with Disabilities by tabling the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (C.R.P.D.) in the House of Commons. Tabling is the last step in the process of ratification of the C.R.P.D.
- November 6, 2009: U.N. General Assembly adopts resolution on realizing the Millenium Development Goals for persons with disabilities. U.N. General Assembly Resolution (PDF Document - 37 KB) | U.N. General Assembly Resolution (Rich Text Format - 130 KB)
- October 21st, 2009: The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (O.H.C.H.R.) will host an open-ended consultation meeting on National Frameworks for the Implementation and Monitoring of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on October 26th, 2009 in Geneva. Representatives of States, inter-governmental organizations, national human rights institutions and non-governmental organizations, in particular organizations of persons with disabilities, are invited to participate in the meeting. All information on the consultation and the O.H.C.H.R. study is available here.
- September 2-4, 2009: Second Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (C.R.P.D.) taking place at United Nations headquarters in New York. The meeting is focusing on legislative measures required to implement the C.R.P.D. Read more about the Second Conference of States to the C.R.P.D. meeting.
- July 22nd, 2009: U.S. President Obama will sign the U.N. Disability Convention. He will make the announcement on July 24, 2009, at a White House ceremony marking the anniversary of the adoption of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Read more about this story.
- April 14-16, 2009: Expert Group Meeting held in Geneva on Mainstreaming Disability in Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) policies, processes and mechanisms. Read more about the Disability and M.D.G.s meeting.
- March 3rd, 2009: Australian Appointed Inaugural Rapporteur to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- November 3, 2008: First Conference of States Parties on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (C.R.P.D.) elects members of new Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. For more information, read the press release from the International Disability Alliance (I.D.A.) Forum
- May 3, 2008 - U.N. Disability Convention comes into force. For more information read the following related articles from the U.N. website:
- March 30, 2007 - Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (C.R.P.D.) open for signature ... read more
- December 13, 2006 - United Nations General Assembly formally adopts Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (C.R.P.D.) ... read more
- New Journal of Disability Law sponsored by Syracuse University ... read more