Dear Marcia,
I'll inform my friends about this activity.
Unfortunately, I just can't go to New York this time.
Will there be a webcast of this activity?
Thanks,
Lauro
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> Monitoring Our Rights:
> A Tool for Evidence-based Participatory Policy-making
> Date: 10 Jun 2015
> Time: 11:45am - 1:00pm
> Venue: Conf. Room 12, United Nations Headquarters, NYC
> Organizers: Disability Rights Promotion International (DRPI)
> Co-sponsors: Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency
> (SIDA) and York University, Toronto, Canada
> Subject: Invitation to side-event
> We are pleased to invite you to Monitoring our rights: a tool for
> evidence-based participatory policy-making, a side event organized by
> Disability Rights Promotion International (DRPI).
> The event will focus on DRPI’s participatory methodology for monitoring
> disability rights including:
> A) Monitoring that includes people with disabilities as integral to
> data collection
> B) Well-planned monitoring as a contribution to more effective policy-making
> C) Recognizing persons with disabilities as legitimate researchers
> D) Monitoring as a tool for North/South dialogue
> The speakers will be:
> * Marcia Rioux, Distinguished Research Professor, School of
> Health Policy and Management, Faculty of Health, York University;
> Canada, Co-Director (with Bengt Lindqvist Disability Rights Promotion
> International
> * Jose Viera, Latin America Regional Officer, Disability Rights
> Promotion International, Buenos Aires, Argentina
> * Kuhu Das, Director, Association for Women with Disabilities
> (AWWD), West Bengal, India
> We hope that you will join us and contribute to a productive discussion
> about pathways to the meaningful involvement of people with
> disabilities in the monitoring of disability rights. Your expertise and
> experience would constitute an important contribution and we look
> forward to meeting you in New York.
> Sincerely,
> Marcia Rioux Bengt Lindqvist
> DRPI Co-Director DRPI Co-Director
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