DPO Australia

Disabled People's Organisations Australia (DPO Australia) @FPDNAus @PWDAustralia @WWDA_Au @NEDA_Peakbody

[FPDN Australia @FPDNAus]

Today households across Australia woke to an impactful AUSLAN television commercial for The Voice to Parliament as part of our #HaveYourSay campaign.

Get involved and learn more: #HaveYourSay and visit https://t.co/w5sY3mEVYX

#yes23 #thevoicetoparliament #UluruStatement

[People with Disability Australia (PWDA) @PWDAustralia]

#COSP16 Day 4 Round-Up, featuring photos with our international colleagues and notes from our side event with @QldAdvocacy about ensuring people with disability with diverse sexualities, gender identities and sex characteristics are included.

[People with Disability Australia (PWDA) @PWDAustralia]

#COSP16 Day 3 Round-Up, including links to the text of our speech on the indefinite detention of people with disability and @WWDA_AU's on sexual and reproductive rights.

https://t.co/biuJDo3Aan

[FPDN Australia @FPDNAus]

“FPDN will always continue to advocate for the rights of First Peoples with disability even if the Intervention is not successful, but we are hopeful the Intervention will make it through.”

MEDIA RELEASE: https://t.co/00TaB5CjUa

[Amanda Rishworth MP @AmandaRishworth]

We also had a great COSP16 side event at UNHQ on Australia’s Disability Strategy and an event at the New York Consulate with Down Syndrome Australia and Down Syndrome International. @DownSyndromeAu

[Amanda Rishworth MP @AmandaRishworth]

A busy last day at the United Nations as part of our attendance for COSP16, including presenting a statement to the UN General Assembly High Level Debate on Equal Access to Justice for All #cosp16 @UN_PGA @AusHumanRights @AusintheUS

[Amanda Rishworth MP @AmandaRishworth]

Great meeting with my UK counterpart @VotePursglove to discuss our shared commitment to disability employment and in particular his focus on improving autistic employment. We even got a few friendly barbs in about the upcoming Parliamentary Ashes series 🏏 🇦🇺🇬🇧 @AusintheUS

[Amanda Rishworth MP @AmandaRishworth]

Thanks US Special Advisor Sara Minkara Canadian Minister @cqualtro Zambian Minister @DoreenSMwamba Guyanan Minister Vindhya Persaud, UN Special Envoy Maria Soledad Cisternas Reyes, Malaysian Minister @NancyShukri & UN Under Secretary General Li Junhua @UNDESA for #cosp16 meetings

[DPO Australia @DPOAustralia]

Our 2nd day round-up for #COSP16 is out! Things moved into the General Assembly today. Read more about the day here: https://t.co/KDfwf9WMGN @PWDAustralia @NEDA_PeakBody @FPDNAus @WWDA_AU

[People with Disability Australia (PWDA) @PWDAustralia]

#COSP16 Day 2 Round-Up: 13 June. We attended the opening session in the General Assembly Hall and several side events.

Speakers highlighted the importance of harmonising national policies and strategies with the #CRPD

Read more: https://t.co/uRHMbr1VPx

[Rosemary Kayess @RosemaryKayess]

Great to see so many Australian Civil Society reps and disability friends from the Pacific last night at the Australian welcome reception for #COSP16 @PWDAustralia @OzDisabilityLaw @FPDNAus @BenGauntlettDDC @AustraliaUN

[People with Disability Australia (PWDA) @PWDAustralia]

#COSP16 Day 1: 13 June 2023 - DPO Australia members have 10 delegates, including two youth delegates in New York. The first order of business was to attend the Civil Society Forum #CSFCRPD hosted by the @IDA_CRPD_Forum. Read more: https://t.co/fR1QQfWZco

[DPO Australia @DPOAustralia]

Check out our #COSP16 Day 1 roundup on our website, featuring our #CSFCRPD photos:

https://t.co/ZIWO3ebnzP

[DPO Australia @DPOAustralia]

Institutions, in all its forms, and especially contemporary forms of institutions and institution-like settings, needs to be abolished. The deinstitutionalisation guidelines provide clear steps!

[TCI-Global @TCI_Global]

The DI Guidelines gives a very practical, step by step inventory of policy and program actions to take for governments. The map of actionables described should encourage governments to go forward without delay. Says Bharagvi Davar at CSF during 16th COSP #CSFCRPD @IDA_CRPD_Forum

[Women Enabled International @WomenEnabled]

@RosemaryKayess sharing the many ways that the #CRPD & other int’l human rights law prohibits forced sterilization and challenges ableism and ableist attitudes that lead to forced sterilization Thank you, Rosemary! @MyEDF #SRHR #CoSP16

[DPO Australia @DPOAustralia]

Thank you to @AustraliaUN for hosting the #COSP16 welcome reception. It was fantastic to be among Australia's delegates, and to be attending COSP with @AmandaRishworth. It's so important to have civil society at these meetings.

[Ambassador James Larsen 🇦🇺🇺🇳 @AustraliaUN]

It was an honour to welcome @AmandaRishworth, Australia's Minister for Social Services, to New York for the 16th Session of the @UN Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

[DPO Australia @DPOAustralia]

Thank you @AmandaRishworth and the Australian Government for supporting young people with disability. We are proud to be sending two youth delegates to #COS16.

[Amanda Rishworth MP @AmandaRishworth]

This week a group of Australians with diverse experience with disability including 11 of of the 14 civil society delegates are aged between 18-35, to attend 16th Session of the @UN Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities #COSP16

[Rosemary Kayess @RosemaryKayess]

@AustraliaUN @AmandaRishworth @UN Excellent welcome reception it was a pleasure to join @AustraliaUN and @AmandaRishworth and colleagues from Oz and the Pacific @DPOAustralia @AfdoOffice @OzDisabilityLaw @BenGauntlettDDC @PDFSEC #COSP16

[Inclusion International @InclusionIntl]

@InclusionIntl member @CydaAu speaks to the importance of the inclusion of young people with disabilities in #CRPD discussions:
"We are one of the most creative sectors of society and we are continuously underestimated. We need a chance to speak properly for ourselves.” #CSFCRPD