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Welcome!

• How the webinar works

Everyone will be on mute

– If you want to ask a question

• You can type in in the ‘question’

box at any time during the webinar

– If you have a problem, send a message to the ‘organiser’ – Please check your handouts folder

• We will share a link to the

recording

Ines Bulic Cojocariu Deputy Director ENIL

Organisers

Eu Europe

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In Independent Living www www.eni enil.eu eu Di Disabi bility ty Ri Righ ghts ts In International www www.driadvocacy.org

CRPD Standards & UN Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children

Catalina Devandas Aguilar UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights

• f Persons with Disabilities

Eric Rosenthal Executive Director Disability Rights International

Scientific Panel: Impact of group homes and residential care on child development

• Dr. Charles A. Nelson III

Harvard Medical School

• Dr. Joan Kaufman

Kennedy Krieger Institute & John Hopkins University

• Dr. Ruthie-Marie Beckwith

Executive Director TASH

Thank you! Questions and discussion …..if you have a question, please type it into the question box.

Further reading

Position paper: The right to live and grow up in a family for all children (DRI, ENIL, Validity Foundation and TASH), available at: https://enil.eu/news/right-to- live-and-grow-up-in-a-family-for-all-children/ Report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities (theme: right to liberty), available at: https://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Disability/SRDisabilities/Pages/Reports.aspx General Comment No 5 on Article 19 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (living independently and being included in the community), available at: https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?sym bolno=CRPD/C/GC/5&Lang=en

Thank you!

ines.bulic@enil.eu erosenthal@driadvocacy.org