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

Inscrições