The employment-related situation of persons with disabilities
WHAT TO TARGET IN THE POST-2020 EU DISABILITY STRATEGY?
Dear Colleagues,
I would like to kindly invite you to our online discussion:
The employment-related situation of persons with disabilities
WHAT TO TARGET IN THE POST-2020 EU DISABILITY STRATEGY?
Thursday, 19. November 2020 / 16:00 - 18:00
hosted by MEP Katrin Langensiepen (Greens/EFA)
with
Inmaculada Porrero Placencia (European Commission)
Robert Jan Uhl (EU Agency for Fundamental Rights)
MEP Marc Angel (S&D) and MEP Adam Kosa (EPP)
Several disability & human rights related NGOs and academia
International Sign Language and speech to text interpretation will be provided
Link to registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xwEwl3-lT5eoUhW3Xrj3Ug
To this day, persons with disabilities in the European Union are systematically excluded from the open labour market.
MEP Katrin Langensiepen (Greens/EFA) just presented her draft report in the EMPL Committee of the European Parliament on the equal treatment of persons with disabilities in employment.
The draft report deplores the current situation and makes clear that Member States and the European Union are not meeting their commitments to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
As a result of a cooperative work with several disability and human rights related NGOs, academics and the European Network of Equality Bodies, the draft report presents different measures that should be taken on a European and national level in order to guarantee work in diversity.
In parallel to this, the European Commission is currently drafting the new post-2020 Disability Strategy, which ambition will define the outcome for persons with disabilities in the European Union for the next years. Which points should be included in the post-2020 disability strategy regarding employment?
The event attempting to answer this question will be hosted by MEP Katrin Langensiepen (Greens/EFA) and have many guest speakers from various organisations: Inmaculada Porrero Placencia from the European Commission, Robert Jan Uhl from the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), speakers from NGOs, the Equinet as well as from the academia and we will also give the floor to MEP Marc Angel (S&D) and MEP Adam Kosa (EPP).
The following organisations will be present and give their input:
European Disability Forum
Autism-Europe
European Blind Union
European Network on Independent Living
European Union of the Deaf
Mental Health Europe
Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Inklusionsfirmen
Equinet - Dr. Jone Elizondo Urrestarazu
National University of Ireland Maynooth - Dr. Delia Ferri
University of Leeds - Dr. Mark Priestley
We are looking forward to a lively debate!