BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:05c910a150acb4dcc8f66956daa08cf9 CATEGORIES:Conferences CREATED:20190813T103726 SUMMARY:Call for Papers: 7th Annual Disability Rights Conference DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:\n\n\n\n\nThe conference is about developing responses for realising the hu man right of persons with disabilities to live in the community in the Afri can region. The focus is two-fold: 1) critically appraising laws, policies, practices, programmes, polities and ideologies that serve to impede the hu man right of persons with disabilities to live in the community with choice s and appropriate support on an equal basis with others; and 2) suggesting reforms to overcome the impediments. The conference will be held at the Cen tre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, South Africa, on 11 and 12 No vember 2019. \n\n\nAuthors of abstracts and papers should seek to prop ose ideas and remedial approaches which can serve as resources for assistin g lawmakers, courts and tribunals, policymakers, caregivers, residential an d other community support service providers, education providers, health-ca re providers, employers, and other pertinent actors in fulfilling the right of all persons with disabilities to live in the community. It is anticipat ed that papers presented at this conference will be reworked by authors and submitted for consideration for publication in the 2020 volume of the  ;African Disability Rights Yearbook.\n\n\nDownload Call for Papers\n7th Ann ual Disability Rights Conference\n\n‘Fulfilling the right of persons with d isabilities to live in fulfilling the right of persons with disabilities to live in the community: Promoting choice, inclusion and participation’\n11 – 12 November 2019\n\n\nThe conference will serve as a forum for scholarly interactions and exchange of ideas on proffering recommendations to address impediments to the right to live in the community. It seeks to bring toget her scholars, practitioners, care and service providers and researchers fro m the African region and beyond working on various aspects of the right to live in the community. Interested participants are invited to submit abstra cts on topics of their choice.\n\n\nPossible topics to consider\nThe follow ing are mere suggestions rather than an exhaustive list of issues that auth ors may consider using as a focal area or areas, bearing in mind that the n arrower the focus the greater are the prospects of writing a successful abs tract:\n\n - conceptualising the right to live in the community\n - childre n with disabilities and  the right to live in the community\n - youth with disabilities and  the right to live in the community\n - adults w ith disabilities and the right to live in the community\n - persons with in tellectual disabilities and the right to live in the community\n - persons with psychosocial  disabilities and the right to live in the community \n - domestic policy-making and legislation for the right to live in the co mmunity\n - domestic law and the right to live the community\n - the inters ections between the right to live in the community and other human rights, e.g., right to: adequate standard of living and social protection; accessib ility; education; employment; health; family; education; legal capacity; li berty of movement; mobility; and habilitation and rehabilitation\n - place of global and regional jurisprudence in interpretation and application of d omestic laws\n - place of regional jurisprudence in interpretation and appl ication of the right to live in the community\n - place of comparative law in interpretation and application of domestic laws\n - constitutionalising the right to live in the community\n - place of courts and tribunals in pro moting the right to living in the community\n - place of civil society in p romoting the right to living in the community\n - place of  NGOs in pr omoting the right to living in the community\n - place of the family and ot her caregivers in promoting the right to living in the community.\n\nDeadli ne (Abstracts): 30 August 2019\nAuthors will be notified by 9 Septembe r 2019 whether their abstract has been accepted.\n\n\nDeadline (Papers):28 October 2019\nAuthors whose abstracts are accepted will be required to subm it their full papers by 28 October 2019.\n\n\nAbstracts and queries must be sent to  jehoshaphat.njau@up.ac.za\n\n\n  Jehoshaphat Jo hn Njau Project Coordinator: Disability Righ ts Unit \n\nTel: +27 12 420 5408\nFax: +27 (0) 86 580 5743\njehoshaphat.njau@up.ac.za\n \n DTSTAMP:20260702T224724Z DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20190911T080000 DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg;VALUE=DATE:20190913 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:OPAQUE END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR