In this third webinar Hakan Özgül and İdil Seda Ak from Toplumsal Haklar ve Araştırmalar Derneği will be our guest speakers. We will talk about issues faced by people with disabilities and civil society organizations working on disability rights in the midst of the pandemic.
The webinar entitled Civil society during and after pandemic - 3: “Disability rights, difficulties and solutions” will be on 20th of May, Wednesday at 16.00 (Turkey time).
The participation will be available through Zoom meeting and will also be broadcasted live on Facebook channel of the Foundation in Turkish.
The event will be in Turkish. There will be also sign language translation. Simultaneous interpretation into Armenian will be provided during the webinar within Zoom. Simultaneous interpretation will not be broadcasted.
Registration is only available in the Turkish version of this page.
The information and link of the Zoom meeting will be sent after the registration.
Hakan Özgül
Özgül is working on human rights of persons with disabilities in law. He has publications and articles in the field of diability rights, has prepared numerous accessibility reports on many different institutions and organizations and took part in various educational activities. |
İdil Seda Ak
She worked as a researcher at the Handas Institute in France and at Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz in Austria on Article 24, the right to education, of UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. After returned to Turkey, Ak worked at the Ministry of Education General Directorate of Special Education and Guidance Services for a short time. Ak is the board member of Engelli Kadın Derneği (ENGKAD) and Toplumsal Haklar ve Araştırmalar Derneği(TOHAD). She is the founding member of Network of Rights of Children with Disabilites which is supported by UNICEF. She is still working as a consultant at INGEV and part-time instructor at Bogazici University and Medipol University. |
This project is funded by the European Union.
The simultaneous interpretation of the webinar is organised within the framework of
Support to the Armenia-Turkey Normalisation Process programme
supported by the European Union