Join Human Rights Medal winner Rosemary Kayess for the 2020 Human Rights Day Oration.

Rosemary Kayess is a leading human rights advocate for people with disability in Australia and worldwide. Rosemary contributed to drafting the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and successfully lobbied for its ratification in Australia. Last year, Rosemary was awarded the prestigious 2019 Human Rights Medal in recognition of her work in international human rights law for people with disability.

Rosemary will be in conversation with ABC’s disability affairs reporter, Nas Campanella, as they discuss Rosemary’s work with the Disability Royal Commission, as well as the social transformation of CRPD and the impact it has had on the community.

Thursday 10 December, 11.00am - 12.00pm
Live online event

Rosemary Kayess is a teaching fellow at UNSW Law and senior research fellow at UNSW’s Social Policy Research Centre and is serving a three-year term on the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

Rosemary is the first Australian woman to be elected to the Committee, which monitors the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

Rosemary is an accomplished human rights lawyer, researcher and academic. She is currently Chair of the Australian Centre for Disability Law and was an expert member of the Australian Government delegation to the UN negotiations for the Convention. She has advised on the implementation of the Convention in Australia, the Asia-Pacific and Europe.

This 2020 Human Rights Day Oration is co-sponsored by Konica Minolta and King & Wood Mallesons.

Nas Campanella is the ABC's disability affairs reporter. Nas started her career at the ABC as a cadet journalist in Sydney in 2011 before working as a regional reporter in Bega on the New South Wales far south coast. She then spent seven years working as a newsreader, reporter and senior producer for triple j and other ABC platforms. Nas has also undertaken projects with ABC International Development, running initiatives for people living with disability across the Pacific.

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