The Pacific Rim International Forum on the Human Rights of Persons with Disabilities
March 24-25, 2012
Over 650,000,000 people around the world are persons with a disability. But in all parts of the world, persons with disabilities are pushed to the margins of society. They are denied their human rights.
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities marks a paradigm shift in attitudes. Persons with disabilities are no longer seen as objects of charity or disdain. Rather, persons with disabilities have universal human rights:
- The Right to Education (Article 24)
- The Right to Health (Article 25)
- The Right to Work (Article 27)
- The Right to an Adequate Standard of Living (Article 28)
- The Right to Live in the Community (Article 19)
- The Right to Participate in Political, Cultural and Public Life (Article 29)
- Freedom of Expression (Article 21)
- Freedom from Exploitation (Article 16)
- Equality Without Discrimination (Article 5)
The Pac Rim International Forum on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities:
- Rights-Based Approaches to Humanitarian Disasters
- Risk Reduction for Persons with Disabilities
- Rights for Persons with Mental Health Challenges
- De-Institutionalization
- And the urgent need to ratify now The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
Directed & Produced by Drew Morton Goldsmith, Rolling Credit, LLC
Executive Producer, The Center on Disability Studies, University
of Hawai‘i, Manoa
www.pacrim.hawaii.edu
