Seminars

Building Back Better – Disability Leadership and the Way Forward, 9 February 2021

The webinar “Building Back Better – Disability Leadership and the Way Forward” deals with COVID-19 effects and disability leadership in the Nordic countries.

The webinar was hosted by Nordic Welfare Centre, an institution in the Nordic Council of Ministers’ social and health sector. The organizers in Finland are the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) and the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health. The conference was part of Finland's Presidency of the Nordic Council of Ministers in 2021. 

Recordings of the webcast with speech-to-text interpretation:

Indigenous peoples – language, culture and life cycle. Disabilities, dementia and services, 31 August and 1 September 2021

Theme 1: The key human rights obligations and recommendations from the perspective of both indigenous peoples and persons with disabilities. 

Theme 2: Another theme is non-discrimination. This theme particularly raises the issues of positive discrimination, multiple discrimination and the right to language and identity.

Theme 3: A third theme is to outline a vision of future language and culture sensitive services, particularly in sparsely populated areas, while taking account of the human rights and non-discrimination perspectives.

One of the objectives of the seminar is to increase awareness and understanding of the rights of indigenous persons with disabilities, with a particular focus on persons with dementia. Another objective is to share experiences and good practices to further develop services in sparsely populated areas while taking account of the human rights and non-discrimination perspectives, and their language and culture.

The conference was organized by Nordic Welfare Centre, Nordic dementia network, Council of Nordic Cooperation on Disability, Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Finnish Sámi Parliament, SámiSoster, Advisory Board for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities VANE and Finnish Human Rights Centre.

The conference was hosted by Nordic Welfare Centre, an institution in the Nordic Council of Ministers’ social and health sector. The conference was part of Finland's Presidency of the Nordic Council of Ministers in 2021.

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Materials from the webinar

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