This talk, by Rosemary Kayess, Director Engagement, Disability Innovation Institute UNSW explores how international human rights norms have shifted fundamentally in the area of disability over the past 15 years. The adoption of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities international law has moved on from a benevolent welfare approach, based around care, treatment and protection to a modern conceptualisation of disability and human rights framed around disability as just one aspect of the human condition and equal participation. Australia ratified the Convention in 2008 and will appear before the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in September 2019. This talk will ultimately consider what a modern conceptualisation of disability means for human rights protection and law reform in Australia.
Bio: Rosemary Kayess, is the Director Engagement, Disability Innovation Institute UNSW and a human rights lawyer. Rosemary currently teaches in the Faculty of Law at the University of New South Wales. Convening international law and human rights subjects, focusing on the equality provisions within international instruments and their translation into domestic law and policy. She is also a Senior Research Fellow with Social Policy Research Centre UNSW.
Rosemary was an external expert on the Australian Government delegation to the United Nations negotiations for the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. She is currently a member of the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
8 сен 2024