Dear Colleagues, 2022 Commonwealth Scholarships Committee (CSC)-Masters and PhDs Please circulate in your country if on list at bottom of this letter, to disabled people with a good first degree for Masters and a Masters level for PhD scholarships. Closing date to CSC by 1st November…
CDPF Newsletter #5
Free On-line Disability Equality Capacity-building Course
The Commonwealth Disabled People’s Forum is an organisation representing Disabled People (people with disabilities) across the 54 countries of the Commonwealth, which works to improve their position, wellbeing and human rights. With 80 organisations run and controlled by disabled people…
Technical Briefing Session on Disability Rights in the Commonwealth
Virtual Meeting: 2 December 2020 from 10:00 to 12:00hrs (GMT)
Implementing the SDGs and CRPD. Online meeting 4 December 2020
Commonwealth countries adopt statement on promoting human rights in and through sport
Article 30 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) guarantees the Right to participate in recreation, leisure and Sport. This recent statement from the Commonwealth underscores the importance of promoting human rights through sport and the importance of guaranteeing Commonwealth Citizens with disabilities the right to participate in sports on an equal basis with others.
Joint ROFA/CDPF Meeting, 2nd November – Covid-19
CDPF Newsletter #4
CDPF Signs letter objecting to closure of Institute Commonwealth Studies at London University
Please write a letter of complaint to London University. See Statement of Situation:
COMMONWEALTH STATEMENT ON RACISM
Virtual Commonwealth Foreign Affairs Ministers Meeting14 October 2020