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NewsUNESCO FLAGSHIP UPDATE[Last updated Tuesday, October 4, 2005] UNESCO FLAGSHIP MEETING UPDATEInclusion International is a member of the UNESCO Flagship on Education for All and the Right to education for Persons with Disabilities. This Flagship has been established to act as a catalyst to ensure that the right to education, and the goals of the Dakar Framework, are realized for individuals with disabilities. The Flagship has been formed by an alliance of diverse organizations, including global disability organizations, international development agencies, intergovernmental agencies, and experts in the fields of special and inclusive education from developed and developing nations. The Flagship Goal:Recognizing the universal right to education, the Flagship seeks to unite all EFA partners in their efforts to provide access to and promoting completion of quality education for every child, youth, and adult with a disability.
The Flagship Objectives: · To combat discrimination and remove structural barriers to learning and participation in education · To promote a broad concept of education, including essential life skills and life-long learning · To contribute to a focus on the needs of persons with disabilities when resources and activities address the realization of EFA goals
The Flagship seeks to unite all partners in its effort to reach out to children, young people and adults with disabilities, and to promote solutions that can translate universal rights into inclusive realities.
The most recent meeting of the Flagship was held July 29-30th, 2005 in conjunction with the 6th Ad Hoc Meeting of the UN Convention for the Rights of People with Disabilities in New York.
Due to it’s crucial significance for people with disabilities, the Flagship meeting debate focused around the convention article #17 Education. The Flagship also decided to circulate a discussion letter out to various other Flagships to attempt to collaborate on important issues. The Flagship also discussed contributions that it could make as experts on early childhood education and disabilities to the 2007 Global Monitoring report. Finally, the Flagship focused it’s attention on a regional working group report for Flagship for Asia Pacific.
For more information on Inclusion International’s involvement in the Flagship please contact:
Connie Laurin-Bowie Project Director, Inclusion International c/o CACL York University, Kinsmen Building 4700 Keele St. Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3 Ph. 1-416-661-9611 Fx. 1-416-661-5701 |