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Workshop on anti- discrimination mechanisms in the EU countries INT MARKT 32696 Venue: Hotel TBC Ankara, 01 June 2009

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Workshop on anti-discrimination

mechanisms in the EUcountries

INT MARKT 32696

Venue:

Hotel TBC

Ankara, 11 September 2009

For more information on TAIEX assistance and to download presentations of this event, please go to: http://ec.europa.eu/enlargement/taiex.

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Aim of the meeting:

The aim is to provide information on legislation and best practice as regards antidiscrimination mechanisms to combat disability discrimination in the EU countries. Representatives of the EU Member States will present policy tools and legal structures and practices set in their countries in this area.

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Friday 11 September 2009

Chairman: Mr. Abdullah Güven

09:00 Welcome and introduction

Mr. Abdullah Güven, General Director of the Administration for Disabled People, TURKEY

09:15Anti-discrimination legal framework and practise: The influence of the European Union legislation on Austria

Mr. Robert Bechina, Federal Ministry for Labour, Social Affairs and Consumer Protection, AUSTRIA

10:00 Policy tools and legal structure against discrimination in Finland

Ms. Viveca Arrhenius, Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, FINLAND

10:45 Coffee break

11:00 Anti-discrimination policy in Slovakia - Challenges of its implementation

Ms. Alena Angelovicova, The Slovak Republic Government

Office, Department of Human Rights and Minorities,

SLOVAKIA  

11:45Presentation of Turkish legislation on anti-discrimination

Mr. Abdullah Güven, the General Director of the Administration for Disabled People

12:10Questions and answers

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12:30Lunch offered by TAIEX

13:30 European networking in the fight for inclusion against discrimination. Example of best practices (ENSA European Network of Social Authorities- Elisan European Local Action and Social Inclusion Network)

Ms. Elena Curtopassi, Veneto Region, ITALY

14:15Anti-discrimination as a cross cutting issue - education and culture aspects – Spanish experience

Mr. Miguel Mares, Region Valenciana, Employment And

Social Affaires, SPAIN

15:00 Coffee break

15:15 Information tool standards and accessibility issues: application at national level in Portugal

Ms. Ana Andreia Marques, Ministry of Labour and Social Solidarity National Institute for the Rehabilitation, PORTUGAL

16:00UN convention on the rights of people with disabilities

Ms. Alexandra Pimenta, Ministry of Labour and Social

Solidarity National Institute for the Rehabilitation,

PORTUGAL

16:40Stimulating new social policies on disability in Turkey

Mr.Abdullah Güven, the General Director of the Administration for Disabled People

17:00Questions and answers

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17:30

Conclusions, The end of the meeting

This meeting is being organised by theTechnical Assistance Information Exchange Instrument

of the European Commission

CHAR 03/149, B - 1049 Brussels Telephone: +32-2-296 73 07, Fax: +32-2-296 76 94

Web site http://taiex.ec.europa.eu/

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