Disabled People's Organisations Australia (DPO Australia) @FPDNAus @PWDAustralia @WWDA_Au @NEDA_Peakbody
Australia
Joined March 2015
- Tweets2.4K
- Following474
- Followers2.5K
- Likes842
DPO Australia retweeted
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 haveyoursay.net
#yes23 #thevoicetoparliament #UluruStatement
DPO Australia retweeted
#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.
DPO Australia retweeted
#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.
dpoa.org.au/cosp16-day-3-rou…
DPO Australia retweeted
“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: fpdn.org.au/media-release-fi…
DPO Australia retweeted
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 – at Manhattan, NY
DPO Australia retweeted
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 – at Manhattan, NY
DPO Australia retweeted
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 – at Manhattan, NY
DPO Australia retweeted
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
Our 2nd day round-up for #COSP16 is out! Things moved into the General Assembly today. Read more about the day here: dpoa.org.au/cosp16-day-2-rou… @PWDAustralia @NEDA_PeakBody @FPDNAus @WWDA_AU
DPO Australia retweeted
#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: dpoa.org.au/cosp16-day-2-rou…
DPO Australia retweeted
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
DPO Australia retweeted
#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: dpoa.org.au/cosp16-day-1-rou…
![[[L-R] Liz Reid from AFDO, PWDA’s Secretary, Clare Gibellini, Sophia Rinaldis from the Australian Human Rights Commission, Ben Gauntlett, Australia’s Disability Discrimination Commissioner and PWDA’s President, Nicole Lee.]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FyiohhGaIAAHmId.jpg?name=orig)
ALT [[L-R] Liz Reid from AFDO, PWDA’s Secretary, Clare Gibellini, Sophia Rinaldis from the Australian Human Rights Commission, Ben Gauntlett, Australia’s Disability Discrimination Commissioner and PWDA’s President, Nicole Lee.]
Check out our #COSP16 Day 1 roundup on our website, featuring our #CSFCRPD photos:
dpoa.org.au/cosp16-day-1-rou…
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!
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
DPO Australia retweeted
@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
ALT Rosemary Kayess, Vice Chair of the CRPD Committee, speaking at an event on forced sterilization at the United Nations.
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.
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.
Thank you @AmandaRishworth and the Australian Government for supporting young people with disability. We are proud to be sending two youth delegates to #COS16.
DPO Australia retweeted
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
DPO Australia retweeted
@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
