BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250819T214453EDT-67098iSIEZ@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20250820T014453Z DESCRIPTION:(En anglais seulement) \n\nPresented by he Centre for Human Rig hts & Legal Pluralism’s Disability & Human Rights Initiative 2022-2023\n\n A panel with panelists from diverse backgrounds: legal academics\; social advocates\; practitioners\n\nThis event has moved fully online - on Zoom: https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/88517033156\n\nPreliminary questions for discussi on \n\n\n \n What lessons have been learned from COVID-19 in terms of access ibility?\n \n \n What can we learn from other jurisdictions?\n \n\n\n\n \n How h as your work evolved in the past fifteen years?\n \n \n What challenges do yo u anticipate going forth?\n \n \n Where would you like to see your field goin g?\n \n\n\nAbout the event\n\nMany shifts have occurred over the past fifte en years. While COVID-19 is an incredibly significant global event in shee r scale\, and certainly contributes heavily to our examination\, it is har dly the only thing that has affected or been affected by disability issues within our period of study. There have been great strides in accessible p olicy and technology and incredible adaptation in the face of adversity (C OVID-related and otherwise)\, but also tense reminders of how tenuous disa bility rights are when they become costly or inconvenient in practice. The pandemic exacerbated existing disparities but also accelerated the practi cal implementation of many technological innovations\, some of which helpe d create new paths of accessibility and inclusion. Through scholarship and discussion from people with disabilities\, legal scholars\, legal practit ioners\, and activists within and outside the legal profession\, we seek t o illustrate exactly how far we’ve come and what remains to be worked on i n fighting social\, financial\, and institutional barriers.\n\nThis year’s theme of “Lessons from the Past Fifteen Years: Accessibility and Disabili ty Rights” hopes to create a conversation on what accessibility looks like in practice and in theory\, what can be learned across jurisdictions with in and outside of Canada\, shortcomings in contemporary disability rights\ , and future steps. The 2022-2023 Series builds on previous efforts to eng age with disability\n\nAbout the Disability & Law Initiative\n\nThe CHRLP is pleased to present the 2022-2023 Disability and Human Rights Initiative . Building on work dating back to 2012 and inspired by the fifteenth anniv ersary of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities\, t he Initiative’s events this year focus around taking a look back at the la st decade and a half with a critical and analytical lens. We ask: What adv ances have been made? What are some of the lessons learnt? What we should draw from experiences of disability policy\, accessibility implementation\ , and social advocacy moving forward?\n\nMore information: chrlp.law [at] mcgill.ca\n\nConfirmed speakers\n\nJewelles Smith (she/her) - Feminist dis ability activist\, scholar\, writer\, and artist \n\nDr. Jewelles Smith is a feminist disability activist\, scholar\, writer\, and artist. She uses an intersectional\, anti-racist\, anti-ableist\, culturally humble approac h to human rights\, research\, and relationships. Smith uses her voice to amplify the issues of human rights\, disability and women through research \, mainstream media\, and education.\n\nSmith completed her PhD at UBC\, O kanagan in November 2021. Her dissertation documented narratives of disabl ed mothers in Canada from a human rights perspective. Smith is trained in human rights monitoring\, disability human rights justice\, and methods in using legislation\, policy\, and human rights treaties to challenge inequ ality.\n\nSmith works with communities and government to bridge between id eas and action. In particular\, she focuses on how to bring meaningful cha nge by implementing practical actions arising from the voices of those wit h lived experiences through legislation\, policy\, and practice. Smith res ides in British Columbia\, Canada with her service dog\, DaVinci.\n\nAnne Fracht (she/her) - Self-Advocacy Associate\, Harvard Law School Project on Disability \n\nAnne Fracht is a renowned\, award-winning self-advocate. S he moved out of a group home in 1992 and has been living independently eve r since. She began advocating for herself and others in 1998. She has test ified and joined in rallies on Beacon Hill\, Capitol Hill\, and beyond to advance the rights of individuals with all kinds of abilities. She has bee n elected multiple times as Chairperson of Massachusetts Advocates Standin g Strong (MASS)\, the statewide self-advocacy organization\, and she has r epeatedly served on the board of the national self-advocacy organization S elf Advocates Becoming Empowered. She also currently serves on the Disabil ity Law Center’s Board of Directors\, the Massachusetts Department of Deve lopmental Services’ (DDS) Self-Determination Advisory Board\, and the DDS Human Rights Committee.\n\nHezzy Smith (he/him) - Director of Advocacy Ini tiatives\, Harvard Law School Project on Disability \n\nHezzy Smith\, Esq. is a trilingual attorney\, a proud sibling\, and Director of Advocacy Ini tiatives. He's responsible for much of HPOD’s self-advocacy programming. H e has worked closely with self-advocacy and disabled peoples' organization s both in the United States and abroad to advocate\, research\, and produc e awareness-raising materials. His Spanish\, English\, and Bangla language materials have shaped disability rights strategic litigation and importan t decisions by national and regional courts\, and his disability rights sc holarship has appeared in collections published by Cambridge University Pr ess and Oxford University Press\, as well as both U.S. and international l aw reviews.\n DTSTART:20221031T170000Z DTEND:20221031T183000Z LOCATION:Online - Zoom SUMMARY:Lessons from the Past Fifteen Years: Accessibility and Disability R ights URL:/law/fr/channels/event/lessons-past-fifteen-years- accessibility-and-disability-rights-342852 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR