High level meeting on disability: Towards human rights and social model of disability

The high-level meeting on disability focused on labour market participation and the rights of children with disability.

The participants of the high-level meeting assessed progress in the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and progress towards midterm evaluation of the European Disability Strategy (2010-2020).

Anna Ludwinek, Research manager, Eurofound Living Conditions and Quality of Life unit, was a moderator in Panel discussion II (9:00 – 11:00) How to overcome barriers for successful employment? on 12 May.

All presentations made at the meeting can be found on the website of the Latvian Ministry of Welfare (If it opens on a blank page, please change the language on the right top corner of the page to ENGLISH or just copy the address into the bowser and open it from there).