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Australian Federation of Disability OrganisationsAustralian Federation of Disability Organisations
The Australian Federation of Disability Organisations
Presentation to
DR TAP ForumBangkok
October 22, 2010
Australian Federation of Disability Organisations
Role of AFDO
AFDO Vision A community where people with disability can
participate in all parts of social, economic, political and cultural life.
AFDO Mission
To champion the rights of people with disability in Australia and help them participate fully in Australian life.
Australian Federation of Disability Organisations
National Members
Blind Citizens Australia Brain Injury Australia Deaf Australia Deafness Forum National Association of People Living with
HIV/AIDS National Council on Intellectual Disability National Ethnic Disability Alliance Physical Disability Australia Women with Disabilities Australia
Australian Federation of Disability Organisations
State & Regional Members
Australia for All Disability Resources Centre People with Disabilities Western
Australia
Australian Federation of Disability Organisations
Background
Incorporated 2003 Before this operated as the Disability Caucus
from 1994 as an advisory committee to the Federal Gov
Australian Mental Health Consumer’s Network joined in 2004/2005
Since AMHCN disbandoned Janet Meagher has been invited as an observer to member’s meetings
Aust member of Disabled People’s International
Australian Federation of Disability Organisations
DR TAP Melbourne Forum
August 13, 2010 Hosted by AFDO and Tokyo Law
Advocacy Office Pre forum teleconference held with DPOs
Australian Federation of Disability Organisations
Presentations
Welcome to country What is DR TAP Yoshi Ikehara Satoshi Kawashima, The University of
Tokyo “Monitoring Mechanism of CRPD” Professor Ronald McCallum the UN
committee Yukiko Nakanishi, President, Asia
Disability Institute “Realization of CRPD in Japanese Way
Australian Federation of Disability Organisations
Presentations continued
Therese Sands, PWD Australia-the Shadow Report
Sara Law and Teena Zhang, DLA Phillips Fox – other regional tribunals
Professor Terry Carney, The University of Sydney “A Regional Disability Tribunal for Asia and the Pacific?
Dr David Webb, World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry
“Psychosocial Disability and the Asia Pacific”
Australian Federation of Disability Organisations
Attendance
Mental Health Legal Centre Office of the Public Advocate Latrobe University Disability Discrimination Legal Service, Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights
Commission including its Disability Reference Group
Villamanta Legal Service International Development Agency CBM NSW Disability Discrimination Legal Centre
Australian Federation of Disability Organisations
Attendance
National Council on Intellectual Disability
Monash University RMIT University Elder Rights Victoria Action for Community Living People with Disability Australia Australian Federation of Disability
Organizations.
Australian Federation of Disability Organisations
Yoshi Ikehara
DR TAP history
DR TAP is a quasi‑judicial body which adjudicates on cases involved with disability rights and is composed of persons with disabilities, lawyers and representatives of the general public.
Australian Federation of Disability Organisations
Satoshi Kawashima
Human rights is a tree with roots, trunk and branches/leaves.
The roots are the general principles. The trunk is the social model of
disability. The branches and leaves are
definitions, human rights obligations and international monitoring .
Australian Federation of Disability Organisations
Ronald McCallum
UN Committee Optional Protocol Other treaty bodies Australia does not have a Human Rights
Act
Australian Federation of Disability Organisations
Yuki Nakanishi
Japan ratifiying CRPD in Japanese way
Japanese way of government is different to the Japanese way of people with disabilities
Australian Federation of Disability Organisations
Therese Sands
Reported on Australia’s development of parallel report
Much information regarding people with disability presently captured through welfare reports
Australian DPOs are reframing issues in human rights language
Australian Federation of Disability Organisations
Sara Law & Teena Zhang
European court on human rights Inter American court of human rights African court Underpinned by human rights
instruments Judgments are binding with
reinforcement measures
Australian Federation of Disability Organisations
Terry Carney
Rather than set up a new tribunal we should concentrate on capacity building, attitudinal change and the promotion of the rights that the CRPD encapsulates
Australian Federation of Disability Organisations
David Webb
Mental health laws restrict the rights of people with disabilities
Full implementation of CRPD will guarantee rights for people with psycho social disability
Article 12 and supported decision making central
Western responses to mental health leading to colonisation of developing world
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Comments
UN top down Slowness in exhausting domestic
remedies Government buy in will come with
pressure from civil society Analyse the success of CRPD campaign Can’t rely too much on international
system Forum for ideas and joint campaigns
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Conclusion
“I believe we can accomplish this project in a few years because at the beginning of this century, in 2000, I could not believe we would establish the CRPD.. The length of time to accomplish the CRPD was very short. It only took five/six years. So now we are standing at the gate of establishing DRTAP and I believe people with disabilities will accomplish this project. “
Yoshi Ikehara
Australian Federation of Disability Organisations
AFDO
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