🔔🇪🇺 [FOCUS SPEAKER N°6] CORE EU-funded Project Webinar #2 on Inclusive Resilience 🇪🇺 🔔

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🔎🇪🇺 FOCUS on Giampiero Griffo (World Council Member of Disabled Peoples International, who will take the floor on "The need to define better vulnerability".
 
 📑 ABSTRACT 📑

👉 Article 11 of the Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities (CRPD - United Nations) which commits to guaranteeing the protection of persons with disabilities in the event of disasters and emergency situations is still poorly applied by governments (it is seen during the SAR-COV-2 pandemic and the war in Ukraine).

👉 An European Disability Forum research showed that out of 55 European and Asian countries surveyed, only 5 had specific attention to persons with disabilities in the event of disasters. There are many lack of attention and lack of initiatives.

👉 Persons with disabilities are not vulnerable but become vulnerable for barriers and discrimination produce by society, in emergency situation too.
The construction of inclusive protection systems is a process whose essential elements are: the involvement of organizations of persons with disabilities in all emergency clusters, a systematic collection of data (mapping of persons with disabilities for rescue and first assistance, adaptation of means and tools, specific training for operators and persons with disabilities, inclusion in national and territorial emergency plans, legislation and resources invested.

👉 Persons with disabilities are no longer the object of interventions decided by others, but subject to change and innovation: "nothing about us without us”.
 
🇪🇺 BIOGRAPHY 🇪🇺

👉 Human Rights defender
👉 Coordinator of the Technical & Scientific Committee of the National Observatory of the Condition of Persons with Disabilities
👉 Co-director of the Center for Governmentality & Disability studies “Robert Castel” (CeRC) of Università degli Studi 'Suor Orsola Benincasa'​” in Naples.

👉 Wheelchair user, active from 19722 at local, national and international level, Giampiero Griffo is World Council Member of Disabled Peoples International, Board member of European Disability Forum, Chairperson of the Italian network on disability and development, Member of S. Marino Bioethic Committee.

👉 Advisor in Italian delegation at the Ad Hoc Committee that writed the UNCRPD.
👉 Expert in European and international cooperation projets, he has also edited articles, books and research in all areas of disability issues at national and international level in 4 languages.
👉 Member of the Economic & Social Committee of the Italian Council of Ministries Presidency for planning the post SARS-COV-2 pandemic.