By Matters India Reporter
New Delhi, January 7, 2020: Jesuit-run Indian Social Institute (ISI) is organizing a three-day International Consultation on “Human Rights of Persons with Disabilities” from January 17-19.
Delegates, who are working in the field of protecting and promoting the human rights of persons with disabilities will attend the consultation, said Paul Jacob, office manager, Centre for Human Rights & Law and ISI.
The outcomes of the consultation and the way forward for persons with disabilities would help in realizing their fundamental human rights and freedom, Jacob added.
The objectives of the Consultation are to educate persons with disabilities and able-bodied about basic principles underlying Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) and Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016.
It would generate and stimulate new ideas about the interpretation of the legal regime reflected in the UNCRPD and Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 and celebrate paradigmatic shift towards the social model of disability.
The international meet is to call for the formation of a society of equals and challenge and contest the hegemony of ableism.
ISI is the Centre for Research, Training and Action for Social and Economic Development and Human Rights and NGO in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations.
The ISI, New Delhi, was established in the year 1951 in response to the challenges of nation-building and a new emerging social order in an independent India.
The vision of the Institute is to build a just, humane, secular and democratic Indian society wherein the poor and marginalized communities cherish equality, dignity, freedom, justice, peace and harmony.
Of late, the Institute has started playing its role in respect of human rights of persons with disabilities.
The main attractions of this Consultation are the august presence of Prof. Anna Lawson, eminent disability rights scholar from the University of Leeds, UK, said Jesuit Father Denzil Fernandes, executive director, ISI.
According to him, a Moot Advisory Proceeding to be conducted before a Jury consisting of Justice Madan B. Lokur (retd), Supreme Court of India, Justice Anand Mohan Bhatarai, Supreme Court of Nepal, Justice A.P. Shah (retd), High Court of Delhi and Justice Prabha Sridevan (retd), High Court of Chennai.