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The Istanbul Convention: preventing and combating violence against women and girls with disabilities

08/05/2020 @ 14 h 00 min - 16 h 00 min

Free

This webinar will be an opportunity to hear from the Council of Europe’s Group of Experts on Action against Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (GREVIO) on the relevance of the Istanbul Convention for women and girls with disabilities and how to contribute to its implementation with the goal to end violence against all women and girls. We will also be joined by some organisations of persons with disabilities who monitored the implementation of the Convention and reported on violence of women and girls with disabilities to GREVIO to hear about their experience.

Moderator: Ana Peláez Narváez, Vice-President, European Disability Forum

 

The speakers will address the following points:

• The Istanbul Convention and its importance for the disability movement
• The role of GREVIO as a monitoring mechanism: how to contribute from the civil society to the process
• Sharing good practices: reporting on women and girls with disabilities

 

Agenda:

14:00 – 14:40
The Istanbul Convention and its importance for the disability movement
Christina Olsen, Administrator, Secretariat of the Istanbul Convention monitoring mechanism
Questions & Answers

14:40 – 15:20
The role of GREVIO as a monitoring mechanism: how civil society can contribute to the process
Biljana Brankovic, Member of the Group of Experts on Action against Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (GREVIO)
Questions & Answers

15:20 – 16:00
Panel on sharing good practices: reporting on women and girls with disabilities
• Luisa Bosisio, Italian Disability Forum
• Isabel Caballero, CERMI Women’s Foundation
• Claire Desaint, Femmes pour le Dire, Femmes pour Agir
Questions & Answers

The webinar will provide International Sign interpretation and real-time captioning (English). The webinar will be recorded and shared later for those who cannot join. Here is the link for the real-time captioning https://synchshare.de/live/edf.

Register here.

Details

Date:
08/05/2020
Time:
14 h 00 min - 16 h 00 min
Cost:
Free
Website:
https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/2555087308348155405

Organizer

European Disability Forum
Phone
+32 2 282 46 00
Email
info@edf-feph.org
View Organizer Website

Venue

Online