Book your place at disability rights conference

A conference on disability rights in Scotland

It has been six months since the United Nations (UN) Disability Committee published its report about disability rights in the UK. In this report the UN Committee set out its main concerns about disability rights in the UK and lists over 80 recommendations for action by our governments.

We are holding a conference to talk about the UN Committee’s concerns and recommendations for action on:

Tuesday 6 March 2018 from 10:15 am – 3:30pm

COSLA Conference Centre in Edinburgh

Register now to take part in:

• UN Disability Rights Question-Time where guests from the Scottish Government, disabled people’s organisations and national human rights organisations will answer questions from the audience.

• Workshops about the action that needs to happen in the next four years before the UN Committee’s next review and how we can check change is being made.

register now by emailing equalityactscotland@equalityhumanrights.com 

or telephone 0141 228 5910

This conference is being organised by the Equality and Human Rights Commission, the Scottish Human Rights Commission, Inclusion Scotland and People First Scotland.

Some more information:

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) is an international human rights agreement that the UK has signed up to. This agreement sets out what countries have to do to make sure that disabled people have the same rights as everyone else. Every four years, a United Nations (UN) Disability Committee reviews how well the UK is performing on disability rights.

In August 2017, the UN Disability Committee reviewed the UK’s performance for the first time. Disabled people, national human rights organisations and the UK and devolved governments all gave evidence to the UN Disability Committee.

After hearing this evidence the UN Committee decided how well it thinks the UK is performing on disability rights and made recommendations for action. The Committee published its report in October 2017.

Accessible versions of the UN Committee’s report are available on the Equality and Human Rights Commission website here