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DESCRIPTION:The Research Group in Health and Law and the Centre for Human R
 ights and Legal Pluralism are pleased to welcome Anna Lawson\, Deputy Dire
 ctor\, Interdisciplinary Centre for Disability Studies\, University of Lee
 ds\, who will be giving the Fifth Annual Lecture in Health and Law on the 
 subject of Equality and Health: Reaching for Resolution in the Realms of D
 isability Rights?\nAbstract\nThis lecture will reflect on the relationship
  between the concepts of equality and health in the disability context. It
  will consider ways in which the demands of ‘health’ have often been used 
 to override those of ‘equality’.\nAs well as having profound implications 
 for the lives of disabled people\, this has had significant political and 
 theoretical repercussions. Consideration will be given to the harmful impa
 ct\, on the health of disabled people\, of neglecting the demands of equal
 ity.\nThe lecture will conclude by taking a step back and reflecting on th
 e extent to which tensions between ‘equality’ and ‘health’ have been resol
 ved\, and on what factors\, if any\, are contributing to achieving greater
  reconciliation. This discussion will be set against the backdrop of inter
 national developments and\, in particular\, the United Nations Convention 
 on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.\nBiography\nAnna Lawson is the
  deputy director of the interdisciplinary Centre for Disability Studies at
  the University of Leeds. She teaches a range of subjects\, including ‘Int
 ernational Human Rights and Disabled People’ and ‘Equality Law’. Her resea
 rch focuses on disability equality and human rights and her publications i
 nclude EU Non-Discrimination Law and Intersectionality\, edited with Dagma
 r Schiek\, (Ashgate\, 2011)\; Disability and Equality Law in Britain (Hart
  Publishing\, 2008)\; and Disability Rights in Europe\, edited with Caroli
 ne Gooding (Hart Publishing\, 2005).\nAnna has worked in a variety of rese
 arch projects relating to disability equality and human rights. She is cur
 rently a member of the core research team of the European Union’s Academic
  Network of Experts on Disability (www.disability-europe.net)\, where she 
 is co-ordinating work relating to accessibility reform. She has just compl
 eted work on the first disability project of the European Union Fundamenta
 l Rights Agency’s (fra.europa.eu)\, where she played a lead role in co-ord
 inating work on independent living and community participation for people 
 with mental health conditions and people with intellectual disabilities. A
 nna is also actively involved in the work of disability and human rights o
 rganisations.\nFor six years she has been a trustee of the Mental Disabili
 ty Advocacy Centre (www.mdac.info). She has also been a trustee of the Roy
 al National Institute of Blind and Partially Sighted People and of local o
 rganisations (including Leeds Independent Disability Council).\nFor more i
 nformation\, email us at rghl.law [at] mcgill.ca.\nEarlier that day\, Anna
  Lawson will be participating in the third Disability\, Human Rights and t
 he Law Seminar. \nThis conference has been accredited by the Barreau du Qu
 ébec for 1.5 hours of Continuing Legal Education. no. 10062220.
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LOCATION:Maxwell Cohen Moot Court (NCDH 100)\, Chancellor Day Hall\, CA\, Q
 C\, Montreal\, H3A 1W9\, 3644 rue Peel
SUMMARY:Equality and Health: Reaching for Resolution in the Realms of Disab
 ility Rights?
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