The Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, hosts an annual conference on disability rights in an African context during the month of November. The inaugural disability rights conference was held in 2013. The conference acts as a platform for convening dialogue amongst key stakeholders on disability rights, and to spotlight the pertinent and emerging disability rights concerns in the African region.

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www.chr.up.ac.za/images/centrenews/2021/9th_Annual_Disability_Rights_Conference_Programme.pdf

This year’s theme is “Realising the Sexual and Reproductive Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the African Region: The Promise of Disability Rights Treaties”.

The aim of the conference is two-fold:
1️⃣ to critically interrogate the intersection between the sexual and reproductive choices and aspirations of persons with disabilities and prevailing normative regimes at the domestic, regional or sub-regional level, taking into account human rights treaties, especially the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Africa; and
2️⃣ to suggest remedial responses for addressing gaps and weaknesses in the fulfilment of the sexual and reproductive choices and aspirations of persons with disabilities. The conference will be held virtually on 16 – 17 November 2021. It is anticipated that papers presented at this conference will be reworked by authors and submitted for consideration for publication in the 2022 volume of the African Disability Rights Yearbook.

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