Zero Project Conference 2013: The Right of Persons with Disabilities to Work
Mon, 18/02/2013 - Tue, 19/02/2013
The second Zero Project Conference on “The Right to Work: Good Policies and Practices for Persons with Disabilities” will take place on 18-19 February 2013 in Vienna.
The conference is organized by the Essl Foundation and the World Future Council in collaboration with the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the specialized UN agency dealing with labour issues. The conference will focus on good policies and practices to realize the right of persons with disabilities to work on the basis of the findings of the Zero Project Report 2013,aresource of examples of both Good Practice and Good Policy that will equally be presented during the conference.
Out of the 31 good policy nominations researched by the World Future Council, the International Scientific Advisory Board - comprised of experts from important organizations in the field like ILO, Disabled Peoples International, the International Law Association, Rehabilitation International, the European Foundation Center, Employers Forum for Disability as well as Harvard and Cornell University - selected eleven policies for the Zero Project Report 2013 and the second Zero Project Conference on “The Right to Work: Innovative Policies and Practices for Persons with Disabilities”
The conference will present publicly and commend to, and discuss with, decision makers and parliamentarians, encouraging examples of both political responsibility and practical responses realizing the Right to Work, in order to spread social innovation and development.
Invited are more than 200 high-level decision makers, disability rights experts, persons with disabilities and social entrepreneurs, disabled people's organizations and employment experts from all around the world. Together they will discuss outstanding examples of both political responsibility and practical responses that overcome what remains a major challenge all around the world: The exercise of the right to work by persons with disabilities.
The conference is free of charge, but requires registration.
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More about the Zero project:
The Zero Project was launched by the Essl Foundation and the World Future Council at the International Conference on Good Policies for Persons with Disabilities on January 22-23, 2012 in Vienna, Austria. With its global outreach, the Zero Project monitors the national implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities around the world. In addition, with a yearly thematic focus, it identifies and highlights exemplary policies and practices, which actively protect and promote the rights of persons with disabilities. The Zero Project maintains a social-media platform (www.zeroproject.org), and, each year, it publishes the Zero Project Report and presents its findings at the Zero Project Conference.
In May 2008 the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities entered into force. However, the lack of expertise on how to plan and execute policies and strategies that actively promote the rights of persons with disabilities remains a major challenge. In response to this shortage of policy role models, the World Future Council researches exemplary policies in this field, in collaboration with the Essl Foundation's “Zero Project – For a world without barriers”.
