COSP 2020 Side Event
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This year, the WFD organizes and moderates a discussion with a focus on the theme of “Sign Language Recognition to Realise the Human Rights of Deaf People”. The Nippon Foundation and the International Disability Alliance collaborate and supporte the World Federation of the Deaf with this Side Event.
Friday 4th December 2020 3:00pm - 4:15pm EST
'The Recognition of National Sign Languages in the Achievement of Deaf People's Human Rights'
Dr Joseph Murray - The WFD President
Mr Ichiro Kabasawa - The Nippon Foundation Executive Director
Mrs Priscilla Gaspar de Oliveira - The National Secretary for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Brazil
Mrs Ruth Dyson - The former New-Zealand Minister for Disability Issues
The flyer
This is also an opportunity to invite your government leaders to attend the event. WFD encourages you to send them this flyer.
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- International Sign
- Spoken English
- English Captions
Co-organizers
The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) was adopted by the General Assembly by its resolution 61/106 of 13 December 2006. It came into force on 3 May 2008 upon the 20th ratification. Article 40 of the Convention stipulates that “The States Parties shall meet regularly in a Conference of States Parties in order to consider any matter with regard to the implementation of the present Convention.”