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10/10/2015  |   11:15 AM - 12:15 PM   |  Andrew Foster Auditorium

The UN CRPD and Deaf People

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is a landmark human rights treaty now ratified by 155 nations. The treaty has a number of specific provisions related to deaf people in education, access to public services and access to larger society. The post-2015 UN Sustainable Development Goals will determine the bulk of the development aid agenda for the next decade. The Post-2015 SDGs will likely have a concentrated focus on reaching persons with disabilities, who are among the poorest of the poor. There have been a number of projects working with deaf people in underserved regions around the world to date, and the CRPD and Post-2015 SDGs promise to revolutionize development aid work with deaf people in least-developed countries. The World Federation of the Deaf has developed guidelines for such work. This presentation will discuss best practices in accord with guidelines developed by deaf people for work with deaf people in developing countries. An important consideration will be the international disability movements’ credo “nothing about us without us”. Practices for working with deaf organizations in realizing the human rights objectives of the CRPD will be discussed, with a discussion of best practices to date.

• To educate conference attendees about the UN CRPD as it relates to deaf people
• To support the implementation of the CRPD for deaf people through work with local partners in underserved regions.

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Joseph Murray (POC,Primary Presenter), Gallaudet University, joseph.murray@gallaudet.edu;
Joseph J. Murray is Associate Professor of ASL and Deaf Studies at Gallaudet University. He is co-editor of Deaf Gain: Raising the Stakes for Human Diversity with the University of Minnesota Press. Dr. Murray has given numerous lectures on Deaf Studies, the International Deaf Community, and human rights issues in numerous countries on all six continents, as well as at the United Nations, the World Health Organization, and other international bodies. Dr. Murray has been involved with the World Federation of the Deaf for two decades and is currently serving as the WFD Vice President.