ZeroCon23: The Right to Political Participation - What Is this Right, Exactly?
Channel: Zero Project
Date: 2023-02-22

Welcome to #ZeroCon23 - The Zero Project Conference 2023 on Independent Living, Political Participation and ICT! 

Persons with intellectual or psychosocial disabilities often cannot exercise their political rights. Disability rights expert Oliver Lewis discusses the rights-based approach with the co-authors of Zero-Project-Award-winning book on this subject.

Oliver LEWIS: 00:49
Ola ABUALGHAIB: 03:19
Dan MALINOVICH: 03:57
Oswald FOELLERER: 07:57
Petra PLICKA: 57:14

Speakers:
Oliver LEWIS / Doughty Street Chambers / United Kingdom
Ola ABUALGHAIB / United Nations Partnership on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities / Israel
Dan MALINOVICH / UNDP / United States
Oswald FOELLERER / People First Selbstvertretungszentrum Wien / Austria



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This session is part of the Zero Project Conference 2023 (ZeroCon23) — organized by the Zero Project, and broadcast from the United Nations Office at Vienna, Austria. ZeroCon23 spans three days (February 22-24, 2023) and is centred around the theme of Independent Living, Political Participation and ICT. It's featuring Voter & Civic Education, Assistive Technology and insights from Deinstitutionalization to Early Childhood Intervention, Self-employment & Micro Finance to Self-representation, and much more. 
For more information, visit zeroproject.org/zerocon23 


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