Annual Conference on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2023

Conference Details

Date: 25 October 2023

Time: 09:00

Duration: 3 half days

Location: Online

Cost: € 520.00/€ 468.00 (Registration by 25 September)

Organiser: ERA - Academy of European Law

Conference Website

Conference Description

Objective

This online conference will focus on the challenges of intersectional discrimination that people with disabilities face by exploring the impact of gender, sexual orientation and refugee status. The conference will also provide an update on disability law in the European Courts and the implementation of the right to vote of persons with disabilities in the 2024 European Elections.

Key topics

• Recent CJEU and ECtHR case law;
• Intersectional discrimination in the EU;
• Disability and gender;
• Asylum-seekers and refugees with disabilities;
• LGBTIQ+ and disability;
• The right to vote of persons with disabilities;
• Accessibility in the 2024 European Elections Transport.