Conferência "Os direitos das pessoas com deficiência e a sua implementação em Portugal"
Evento tem lugar dia 29 de maio no Forum Picoas
The Rights of Persons with disabilities and its implementation in Portugal
29 May 2018
Forum Picoas, Lisboa
9.30 Opening Session
Ana Sofia Antunes (tbc), Secretary of State for the Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities
Amado da Silva, Rector, UAL
Miguel Santos Neves, Project Coordinator, UAL
10.00 First Panel
The International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: challenges for its effective implementation in Portugal : the recommendations of the Committee CRPD and the diversity of disabilities
Representative of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Geneva (tbc)
Miguel Santos Neves, Project Coordinator, UAL
Tomé Coelho, President of the Portuguese Association of Blind and Partially Sighted Persons ACAPO
Abílio Cunha, President of the Portuguese Associations of Cerebral Palsy
Pedro Costa, President of the Portuguese Federation of Associations of Deaf Persons
11.30 Coffee break
Exhibition “Inclusive technologies”
12.00 Second Panel
Civil society organisations' role in promoting the rights/empowering persons with disabilities and strategy of interaction with the state sector: sharing and diffusing good practices
Representative of the Fundacion ONCE, Spain (tbc)
Humberto Santos, President of the Portuguese National Institute for Rehabilitation
Salvador Mendes de Almeida, President of Salvador Foundation
Paula Campos Pinto, ISCSP, University of Lisbon
Claudia Pedra, Project Researcher, Network of Strategic and International Studies, NSIS
13.30 Conclusions