In a joint initiative, the Portfolio and Select Committees on Women, Children and People with Disabilities will be hosting public hearings on the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
The hearings will be held in accordance with the Committees’ primary mandate, which is aimed at ensuring compliance with international and regional treaties that has a bearing on women, children and persons with disabilities.
The purpose of the public hearings is to identify progress made in implementing the Convention, pinpoint challenges that impede the implementation of the Convention from both civil society and the Executive, as well as to ascertain mechanisms that would aid the implementation of the Convention.
In terms of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, South Africa became a signatory to the Convention on 20 March 2007 and ratified on 30 November 2007. Although South Africa was expected to deliver its first report to the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on 3 May 2010, it has not fulfilled this obligation.
Details of the hearings are as follows:
Date: 25 to 26 July 2012
Time: 11h00
Venue: Old Assembly, V475
For interviews with the chairperson or media enquiries, please contact:
Malatswa Evans Molepo, Parliamentary Communication Services
Cell: 073 297 1914
Tel: 021 403 8438
E-mail: mmolepo@parliament.gov.za
