2016
November 15-17 2016: Expert Group Meeting on Advancing the Rights and Perspectives of Women and Girls with Disabilities in Development and Society, Santiago, Chile. Info
October 25-27 2016: 23rd Rehabilitation International (RI) World Congress, Edinburgh, UK. Info
October 16 2016: DESA Forum on Accessible and Disability Inclusive Urban Development, Quito, Ecuador. Info
September 27-29 2016: 2nd CBR World Congress, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Info
September 23 2016: PGA meeting on the follow-up to the HLMDD, UN Headquarters, New York.
September 6-8 2016: Disability Studies Conference- Lancaster University. Info
July 25& 26 2016: Theorizing Normalcy and the Mundane, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. Info
June 14- 16 2016: 9th session of the Conference of States Parties to the CRPD, UN Headquarters New York. Info
June 13-14 June 2016: M-Enabling Summit, Washington, D.C., USA. Info
June 13 2016: International Albinism Awareness Day. Info
May 25 2016: Meeting of the UN Inter-Agency Support Group to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Info
May 23-24 2016: Special Session on Inclusion of persons with disabilities in humanitarian action, World Humanitarian Summit, Istanbul. Info
May 22 2016: DSPD/DESA Forum on Disability-Inclusive Humanitarian Action, Istanbul. Info
April 25- 26 2016: Pacific Rim International Conference on Disability and Diversity, Hawaii. Info
April 25- 27 2016: VIII Latin-American Congress of the Blind, Montevideo. Info
April 11- 13 2016: 9th World Assembly of Disabled People’s International (DPI), New Delhi, India. Info
March 18&19 2016: The Minnesota Symposium on Applied Disability Studies- Conference central theme: Aging and Disability. University of Minnesota
March 3-5 2016: El XVI Congreso Colombiano de Terapia Ocupacional, Medellín, Colombia. Info
March 3-5 2016: 5th North American Caribbean Congress on Epilepsy (5th NARCCE), The Epilepsy Society of the Caribbean (ESC), Accra Beach Hotel & Spa, Barbados. Info
February 18 & 19 2016: Disability in the SDGs: Forming Alliances and Building Evidence for the 2030 Agenda- International Symposium, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London. Info
February 10- 12 2016 : Zero Project Conference 2016: Innovative Policies and Practices on Inclusive Education and ICT, United Nations Office/Vienna International Centre, Wagramer Strasse 5, 1400 Vienna. Info
February 3-5 2016: Disability, Human Rights, and Social Equity, University of Melbourne. Info
January 19 2016– Seminar: Reconsidering the Postcolonial Debate: Intersecting Postcolonialism, Education and Disability for Genuine Sustainable Development- 4pm, Room 4.06, Education Building, University of Sheffield, 388 Glossop Road, UK.
January 14 2016: Rights-Based Research and the CRPD. Protestant University of Applied Sciences Rhineland-Westphalia-Lippe (EFH R-W-L) and the University of Melbourne (UoM)
2015
December 3rd 2015: European Conference on Disability-Inclusive Development Cooperation, Brussels. Info
November 30, 2015: East Asia Disability Studies Forum 2015, China. Chang Fu Gong Center, China. Info
November 19-22, 2015: Pan Africa Albinism Conference: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Info
November 18: Including Disability in Development Cooperation: Experiences of collaboration between Governments, NGOs and DPOs, Rome Italy. Info