Gold Indicators to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

The Danish Institute for Human Rights focuses on promoting and protecting human rights and equal treatment for persons with disabilities. They outline Gold Indicators, a set of 10 statistical outcome indicators, to measure the implementation of the CRPD and address key challenges. Their vision is to ensure that persons with disabilities enjoy the same human rights as everyone else.

• Human rights
• Disabilities
• Gold Indicators
• CRPD
• Equality

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1. GOLD INDICATORS TO THE UN CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES MARIA VENTEGODT LIISBERG, PHD DEPARTMENT DIRECTOR EQUAL TREATMENT MVL@HUMANRIGHTS.DK 1

2. The Danish Institute for Human Rights is an independent state-funded institution. Our mandate is to promote and protect human rights and equal treatment in Denmark and abroad. ABOUT THE DANISH INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS 2

3. Vision: We will ensure that persons with disabilities enjoy the same human rights as everyone else. DISABILITY Our goal is to: always refer to the ten greatest challenges that exist for implementing UN s Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Denmark remove the barriers that prevent people with disabilities from full and effective participation in society. To do so we focus on: ensuring that Denmark introduces a general prohibition against discrimination based on disability ensuring that the use of force in psychiatry is reduced and that compulsive restrainment in excess of 48 hours is abolished ensuring that the state ceases to provide support to pay off mortgage loans for the construction of new large institutions changing the electoral legislation so people with disabilities do not lose their right to vote when put under guardianship. 3

4. Gold Indicators Measuring the implementation of the CRPD LATEST PUBLICATIONS The publication outlines the Gold Indicators, a set of 10 statistical outcome indicators which compare the situation of persons with and without disabilities in relation to 10 key rights of the CRPD. http://www.humanrights.dk/publications/gold- indicators The human rights guide to the SDGs http://www.humanrights.dk/files/media/dokumen ter/sdg/dihr_human_rights_reference_paper_to_t he_sdg_indicators_new.pdf 4

5. THE GOLD INDICATORS 5

6. CORRESPONDING SDG PRIORITY INDICATORS 6

7. A SHORT FILM ON THE GOLD INDICATORS Link to the film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Joj9QFVQl xM 7

8. www.twitter.com/MVliisberg SOCIAL MEDIA AND WEBSITE Website: http://www.humanrights.dk/our- work/our-work-denmark/disability 8