CONVENTION

The United Nations Convention about Disabled People Rights of 2006, was ratified by Poland in 2012. The Convention consists of three main parts. In the first one the aims of the Convention are specified, in the second – the resolutions concerning the rights and in the third one the regulations referring to putting the Convention into force.

Entering the Convention is monitored by special UN organizations created for this purpose: state, local and international ones.

In Poland for these tasks responsible are: Polskie Forum Osób Niepełnosprawnych (PFON)

see: http://www.pfon.org/o-nas

The European organization representing 80 milion people: European Disability Forum (EDF)

see: http://www.edf-feph.org

Internationally IDA unites 50 organizations

Międzynarodowe Stowarzyszenie Rozwoju (ang. IDA)

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See participation of ECEKON in PRON conference: Warszawa lipiec 2016

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ECEKON focuses on putting into force the article 30 which tells about presence in culture, sport and recreation.

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Article 30

Participation in cultural life, recreation, leisure and sport

1. States Parties recognize the right of persons with disabilities to take part on an equal basis with others in cultural life, and shall take all appropriate measures to ensure that persons with disabilities:
(a) Enjoy access to cultural materials in accessible formats;
(b) Enjoy access to television programmes, films, theatre and other cultural activities, in accessible formats;
(c) Enjoy access to places for cultural performances or services, such as theatres, museums, cinemas, libraries and
tourism services, and, as far as possible, enjoy access to monuments and
sites of national cultural importance.
2. States Parties shall take appropriate measures to enable persons with disabilities to have the opportunity to develop and utilize their creative, artistic and intellectual potential, not only for their own benefit, but also for the enrichment of society.
3. States Parties shall take all appropriate steps, in accordance with international law, to ensure that laws protecting intellectual property rights do not constitute an unreasonable or discriminatory barrier to access by persons with disabilities to cultural materials.
4. Persons with disabilities shall be entitled, on an equal basis with others, to recognition and support of their specific cultural and linguistic identity, including sign languages and deaf culture.

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