Australian Federation of Disability OrganisationsAustralian Federation of Disability Organisations

The Australian Federation of Disability Organisations

Presentation to

DR TAP ForumBangkok

October 22, 2010

Australian Federation of Disability Organisations

Role of AFDO

AFDO Vision A community where people with disability can

participate in all parts of social, economic, political and cultural life.

AFDO Mission

To champion the rights of people with disability in Australia and help them participate fully in Australian life.

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National Members

Blind Citizens Australia Brain Injury Australia Deaf Australia Deafness Forum National Association of People Living with

HIV/AIDS National Council on Intellectual Disability National Ethnic Disability Alliance Physical Disability Australia Women with Disabilities Australia

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State & Regional Members

Australia for All Disability Resources Centre People with Disabilities Western

Australia

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Background

Incorporated 2003 Before this operated as the Disability Caucus

from 1994 as an advisory committee to the Federal Gov

Australian Mental Health Consumer’s Network joined in 2004/2005

Since AMHCN disbandoned Janet Meagher has been invited as an observer to member’s meetings

Aust member of Disabled People’s International

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DR TAP Melbourne Forum

August 13, 2010 Hosted by AFDO and Tokyo Law

Advocacy Office Pre forum teleconference held with DPOs

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Presentations

Welcome to country What is DR TAP Yoshi Ikehara Satoshi Kawashima, The University of

Tokyo “Monitoring Mechanism of CRPD” Professor Ronald McCallum the UN

committee Yukiko Nakanishi, President, Asia

Disability Institute “Realization of CRPD in Japanese Way

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Presentations continued

Therese Sands, PWD Australia-the Shadow Report

Sara Law and Teena Zhang, DLA Phillips Fox – other regional tribunals

Professor Terry Carney, The University of Sydney “A Regional Disability Tribunal for Asia and the Pacific?

Dr David Webb, World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry

“Psychosocial Disability and the Asia Pacific”  

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Attendance

Mental Health Legal Centre Office of the Public Advocate Latrobe University Disability Discrimination Legal Service, Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights

Commission including its Disability Reference Group

Villamanta Legal Service International Development Agency CBM NSW Disability Discrimination Legal Centre

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Attendance

National Council on Intellectual Disability

Monash University RMIT University Elder Rights Victoria Action for Community Living People with Disability Australia Australian Federation of Disability

Organizations.

Australian Federation of Disability Organisations

Yoshi Ikehara

DR TAP history

DR TAP is a quasi‑judicial body which adjudicates on cases involved with disability rights and is composed of persons with disabilities, lawyers and representatives of the general public.

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Satoshi Kawashima

Human rights is a tree with roots, trunk and branches/leaves.

The roots are the general principles. The trunk is the social model of

disability. The branches and leaves are

definitions, human rights obligations and international monitoring .

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Ronald McCallum

UN Committee Optional Protocol Other treaty bodies Australia does not have a Human Rights

Act

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Yuki Nakanishi

Japan ratifiying CRPD in Japanese way

Japanese way of government is different to the Japanese way of people with disabilities

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Therese Sands

Reported on Australia’s development of parallel report

Much information regarding people with disability presently captured through welfare reports

Australian DPOs are reframing issues in human rights language

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Sara Law & Teena Zhang

European court on human rights Inter American court of human rights African court Underpinned by human rights

instruments Judgments are binding with

reinforcement measures

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Terry Carney

Rather than set up a new tribunal we should concentrate on capacity building, attitudinal change and the promotion of the rights that the CRPD encapsulates

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David Webb

Mental health laws restrict the rights of people with disabilities

Full implementation of CRPD will guarantee rights for people with psycho social disability

Article 12 and supported decision making central

Western responses to mental health leading to colonisation of developing world

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Comments

UN top down Slowness in exhausting domestic

remedies Government buy in will come with

pressure from civil society Analyse the success of CRPD campaign Can’t rely too much on international

system Forum for ideas and joint campaigns

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Conclusion

“I believe we can accomplish this project in a few years because at the beginning of this century, in 2000, I could not believe we would establish the CRPD.. The length of time to accomplish the CRPD was very short. It only took five/six years. So now we are standing at the gate of establishing DRTAP and I believe people with disabilities will accomplish this project. “

Yoshi Ikehara

Australian Federation of Disability Organisations

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