Disability Rights International, the Rapporteur of the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and disability and human rights organizations from Argentina, Guatemala and Peru will hold a public hearing before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on the urgent need to guarantee the right to community integration for persons with disabilities in the continent, in the context of the pandemic.
Friday, October 9, 2020
4 PM EST
The event will be held in Spanish with simultaneous interpretation into English.
Participants:
Priscila Rodriguez, Associate Director, Disability Rights International (DRI)
Eric Rosenthal, Executive Director, Disability Rights International (DRI)
Amalia Gamio, Rapporteur, Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Silvia Quan, President, Colectivo Vida Independiente de Guatemala
Macarena Sabin Paz, Coordinator of Mental Health Program, CELS, Argentina
Eduardo Quirota, Asociación Civil por la Igualdad y la Justicia (ACIJ), Argentina
Brenda Valdivia, Sociedad y Discapacidad (SODIS), Peru
Paolia Yauri, Coalición por la Salud Mental y los Derechos Humanos, Peru