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Sustainable Development
| Involvement in UN Partnerships: | Yes |
| If yes, explain in detail: | (i) ADP participated at UNESCO International Conference “From Exclusion to Empowerment” – Role of ICTs for Persons with Disabilities on 24th Nov 2014 at Vigyan Bhavan. (ii) On Behalf of ADP, Gen. Secretary went to attend the “Policy Exchange Workshop for PWD of Asia Pacific” organized by “Disabled People Organization – Asia Pacific Meeting” from September 23rd to 25th, 2014 at the Jeju Island in South Korea. (iii) ADP participated in the International Workshop on “Enhancement of the Disability Rights Movements”, organized by the Korean Parents’ Network for People with Disabilities in Seoul, Korea held between 23rd-26th July 2014. (iv) ADP participated in the South Asian Workshop for “Advancing the Rights of Women with Disabilities networking and capacity building for advocacy” organized by South Asian Women with Disabilities Network (SAWDN) in Kathmandu, Nepal on 14th & 15th July 2014. (v) On behalf of ADP, Gen. Secretary was specially invited to the Steering Committee on Youth Affairs & Sports for 12th Five Year Plan 2012-2017, apart from being a member of Working Groups on various subjects that have been constituted by the Planning Commission for this task. We have been able to get a substantial and comprehensive chapter on disability issues. (vi) On behalf of ADP Gen. Secretary, went to attend the 3rd Asia Pacific Decade of Disabled Persons. The Korea Federation of Organizations of the Disabled (KOFOD) and DPI Asia Pacific are planning to organize a rally for DPOs United, from September 5-7, 2011 at Seoul, Republic of Korea. (vii) On behalf of ADP, Vice President participated in the National Workshop on Good Practices in the area of Employment and Accessibility in New Delhi on 21- May 2014. (viii) On behalf of ADP, Gen. Secretary has participated in the Disabled People’s International – Asia Pacific (DPI – AP) meeting, organized by the (NCPEDP), ‘Regional Workshop to Accelerate the Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)’ from 18th – 21st August 2011 in Shangri-la Hotel, New Delhi. (ix) On behalf of ADP, Gen. Secretary has participated in state consultations on the Working Draft for Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act. 28th Feb – 1st March 2011, at Indian Spinal Injury Centre, Delhi. |
| Affiliation with other organizations: | National Disability Network |
Social Development
| Accreditation to: | Conference of States Parties |
| Affiliation with other organizations: | Disabled People Organization Asia Pacific DPI India |
| Activities relevant to the conference of States Parties to the convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: | (i) As a part of DRG, we have been involved with several advocacy campaigns that have led to the realization of the rights of persons with disabilities on several counts. Some of the campaigns of DRG that we have been part of are: · 2006-07: Advocacy towards including a chapter on disability in the 11th Five Year Plan. · 2009: Advocacy towards the inclusion of children with disabilities in the Right to Education Act. · 2009-2010: Advocacy towards convincing the Government of India to go in for a new disability law based on UNCRPD. As a result of this advocacy, the Govt. of India finally formed a Committee in April 2010 to draft a new law. We were also involved in the campaign which led to the inclusion of people with disabilities in the committee. (ii) We have participated in a National meeting for the amendment of on Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 1995 in 2007 at the India Habitat Center, New Delhi. (iii) We have organized the National Paralympic Table Tennis Championship continuously from 2007 to 2009 in New Delhi, 2010 to 2012 in Ghaziabad, UP, and 2014 in New Delhi with collaboration with Indian Para Table Tennis Federation. (iv) Association for Disabled People has been working on the Accessible India Campaign. ADP is the empanelled organization to do Access Audits. Our NGO has conducted Access Audits of more than 350 buildings across the country. Now we strive to work for the implementation of Access Audits reports. (v) We have worked as a promoter and organizer of paralympic Sports in India since 2006. We have also played our part to root out corruption from disability sports in India and ensuring the rights of disabled sportspersons. The campaign which started in 2009, finally led to the derecognizing of the corrupt Paralympics Committee of India body in 2011. But this did not come easy. It involved several rallies, writing letters, filing requests for information under the Right to Information Act, maintaining the pressure on the Ministry of Sports and the Paralympics sports body, liaising with the Government over more than 2 years. This advocacy also ensured the participation of genuinely disabled sportspersons in the recently concluded Commonwealth Games in New Delhi in 2010. (vi) We have been involved in the advocacy for the participation of deserving disabled sportspersons in the London Paralympics 2012, while still keeping a vigil on the Paralympics sports body. We filed an RTI against PCI in 2009 and helped 227 sportspersons to participate in IWAS World Games 2009. (vii) We have requested any RTIs in favor of the people of the PWD community to know what exact benefits are being offered by Government to them and how we can get them. Our efforts have made a huge difference in the lives of many persons with disabilities. |
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