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Welcome! • How the webinar works Everyone will be on mute – If you want to ask a question • You can type in in the ‘question’ box at any time during the webinar – If you have a problem, send a message to the ‘organiser’ Ines Bulic Cojocariu Deputy Director – Please check your handouts ENIL folder • We will share a link to the recording

Organisers Europe Eu opean Networ ork on on Di Disabi bility ty Ri Righ ghts ts In Independent Living In International www.eni www enil.eu eu www www.driadvocacy.org

CRPD Standards & UN Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children Catalina Devandas Aguilar UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Eric Rosenthal Executive Director Disability Rights International

Scientific Panel: Impact of group homes and residential care on child development Dr. Charles A. Nelson III Dr. Joan Kaufman Dr. Ruthie-Marie Beckwith Harvard Medical School Kennedy Krieger Institute Executive Director & John Hopkins University TASH

Thank you! Questions and discussion …..if you have a question, please type it into the question box.

Further reading Position paper: The right to live and grow up in a family for all children (DRI, ENIL, Validity Foundation and TASH), available at: https://enil.eu/news/right-to- live-and-grow-up-in-a-family-for-all-children/ Report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities (theme: right to liberty), available at: https://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Disability/SRDisabilities/Pages/Reports.aspx General Comment No 5 on Article 19 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (living independently and being included in the community), available at: https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?sym bolno=CRPD/C/GC/5&Lang=en

Thank you! ines.bulic@enil.eu erosenthal@driadvocacy.org