In December 2022, the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) produced a report, A Three-Decade Journey towards Inclusion: Assessing the State of Disability-Inclusive Development in Asia and the Pacific. The report comments that although there have been advances in disability inclusion over the last 30 years, ‘the pledge to leave no one behind has not been achieved’ in the region.
In this international online seminar, authors who contributed to the special issue of The Australian Journal of Asian Law on disability and laws in Asia will offer not just an analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of laws on disability in a range of Asian jurisdictions, but also the effectiveness of these laws in action, and offer assessments of disability rights in a human rights context.
This international online seminar is co-hosted by the Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam and Society and the Asian Law Centre, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne.
Presenters:
- Dina Afrianty, Thomas More Law School, Australian Catholic University
- Ayah Wehbe, Social Policy Research Centre, the University of New South Wales
- Nurhidayah Bindi Abdullah, Universiti Malaya
- Zhanina Custodio, Philippine Normal University
- Hanira Binti Hanafi, Universiti Malaya
- Carole Petersen, William S Richardson School of Law, University of Hawaii at Manoa
- Stephen Rosenbaum, University of California and University of Washington
- Asma Bint Shafiq, Department of Law, University of Chittagong
- Meng Ee Wong, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
