Date: 10-14 October 2006
Location: Sion, Switzerland
 
The Institut International des Droits de l'Enfant (IDE) is organising its next
international Sion seminar on the rights of children with disabilities. The aim of
the seminar is to better understand the life of children with disabilities
world-wide, to find out the protection potential of the future Convention, and to
promote handicap as a real richness.

Issues tackled in the seminar include: the WHO definition of disability, the
national and international protection tools (such as the future UN Convention and
the General Comment issued by the Committee on the Rights of the Child), as well as
specific issues like education and training, family, institutionalisation,
participation, environment (work, architecture, training), positive and negative
discrimination.

IDE is launching a call for papers to any individual, NGO, State, private or public
agency, and/or university, working in the field of children living with
disabilities. Papers must focus on one or several of the issues addressed by the
conference. Contributions can be made in French, English or Spanish. They will be
presented during the seminar and given out to all the participants.[Source: CRIN]

For more information contact:
Ms Paola Riva Gapany, Director's Assistant
Institut International des Droits de l'Enfant (IDE)
CP 4176 / CH-1950 Sion, Switzerland
Tel: +41 27 205 73 03; Fax: +41 27 205 73 02
Email: info@childsrights.org 
Website: http://www.childsrights.org