Every year since 2012, Global Accessibility Awareness Day has been celebrated on the third Thursday of May. To mark the occasion, the Office for Accessibility and the Office for Persons with Disabilities at the University of Warsaw held a meeting with one of the authors of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Representatives of the Nicolaus Copernicus Superior School attended the event, organized on May 12.
Special guests at the event included Prof. María Soledad Cisternas Reyes, a Chilean lawyer and activist for the rights of people with disabilities, and Deputy Minister Lukasz Krasoń, Government Plenipotentiary for Persons with Disabilities, Deputy Minister of Family, Labor and Social Policy.
Prof. María Soledad Cisternas Reyes was Chair of the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General on Disability and Accessibility. Her work was crucial to the development and implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
During the conference at the University of Warsaw, Prof. Cisternas Reyes gave a lecture “The importance of raising awareness: a key factor in implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.” Another part of the event was a discussion with Minister Łukasz Krasoń about people with disabilities in Poland.
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Nicolaus Copernicus Superior School, together with the “L” Foundation, is implementing the “Accessible Nicolaus Copernicus Superior School” project. It aims to prepare an accessibility system and provide equal opportunities in academic life for SGMK students and employees with disabilities, as well as for foreign students.
Photo: MRPiPS.
