Autonomy and Security in the Context of Independent Living
A Disability, Human Rights and the Law Series seminar for 2015-2016, organized by the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism.
Article 19 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRDP) requires State signatories to ensure that "persons with disabilities have the opportunity to choose their place of residence and where and with whom they live on an equal basis with others and are not obliged to live in a particular living arrangement". Using the CRPD as a backdrop, this seminar will explore issues of independent living and security. In particular, we will examine how independent living and integration in the community can be achieved. We will discuss the challenges of balancing the need to protect with the right to liberty, as well as the best policies for promoting not only human dignity, but also human flourishing.
Moderated by Iñaki Navarrete, and featuring Roberto Lattanzio of ARCH Disability Law Centre, Fahreen Nanji, a physiotherapist Toronto Rehab, and Marie-Christine Beshay, Faculty Lecturer, School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, McGill.
A request for accreditation for 1.5 hours of continuing legal education has been made.
