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Appendices

Appendix A: D.R.P.I. Advisory Committee

  • Andrew Byrnes, Professor, Australian National University, Australia
  • Christian Courtis, Professor, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Theresia Degener, Professor, University of Applied Sciences, Germany
  • Steven Estey, Chair, International Committee, Council of Canadians with Disabilities, Canada
  • Nicholas Howen, Regional Representative for Asia-Pacific, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Thailand
  • Judith Heumann, Advisor on Disability and Development, The World Bank, United States
  • Rodrigo Jiménez, Rights of Peoples with Disabilities, Costa Rica
  • Lars Lööw, Disability Ombudsman, Office of the Disability Ombudsman, Sweden
  • Leanne MacMillan, Executive Director, I.N.T.E.R.I.G.H.T.S., United Kingdom
  • Anuradha Mohit, Special Rapporteur, National Human Rights Commission, India
  • Gerard Quinn, Professor, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
  • William Rowland, Second Vice President, World Blind Union, and Executive Director, South African National Council for the Blind, South Africa
  • Eric Rosenthal, Executive Director, Mental Disability Rights International, United States
  • Ann-Marit Sæbønes, Politician and Disability Activist, Norway

Appendix B: Phase 1 Project Team

Below are brief biographies of each of the members of the team working on Phase 1 of Disability Rights Promotion International:

  • BENGT LINDQVIST: Bengt Lindqvist was Principal Investigator for D.R.P.I. Phase 1 and is Co-Director of the D.R.P.I. project. He was the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Disability from 1994 until January 2003, and was also a Member of Parliament in Sweden, serving as Minister for Social Services and Family Affairs. He has received honorary doctorates in social science (Stockholm University, 1999) and community medicine (Lund University, 2002). By profession, Bengt Lindqvist is a language teacher. He has extensive experience in the movement of people with disabilities, both in Sweden and internationally.
  • MARCIA RIOUX: Marcia Rioux was Principal Investigator for D.R.P.I. Phase 1 and is Co-Director of the D.R.P.I. project. She is the Graduate Director of the Master of Arts (Critical Disability Studies) at York University in Toronto, Canada and is also Professor and Chair of the School of Health Policy at York University. She was President of the Roeher Institute for 12 years before joining the university. She works with many disability organizations and has published and consulted widely on disability and human rights and disability policy issues, both nationally and internationally. She received her PhD from the law school at the University of California, Berkeley.
  • FIONA SAMPSON: Fiona Sampson was the phase 1 Project Coordinator. Fiona teaches equality rights law at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, where she is also a candidate in the Doctorate of Jurisprudence programme. Fiona’s Doctoral thesis is an analysis of the Supreme Court of Canada’s treatment of gendered disability. Fiona is a human rights lawyer with expertise in the litigation of sex and disability related discrimination complaints, and she is active within the disability-equality rights community in Canada where she is a member of the Equality Rights Committee of D.A.W.N. (DisAbled Women’s Network) Canada.
  • ANNE CARBERT:Anne Carbert is working for the project in the position of Research Associate. She has varied research and work experience in the equality rights field. As a Human Rights Fellow at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, Anne co-authored a manual on reproductive rights advocacy in the African regional human rights system. She also participated in a women's rights internship in Nairobi, Kenya. Anne is a lawyer and recently worked as a human rights caseworker on discrimination issues related to poverty and housing.
  • ANNIKA ÅKERBERG: Annika Åkerberg authored a background paper on human rights training models. She is a lawyer in Farsta, Sweden, where she works as a human rights consultant specializing in disability-related issues. Most recently, Annika worked as a consultant for the Swedish Organisations of Disabled Persons International Aid Association, the Swedish Disability Federation, the international Almåsa seminar on human rights and disability in Stockholm, Sweden, and the Swedish Organization of Visually Impaired Youth. In 2001, she did an internship at the office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights where she worked for the Committee of the Rights of the Child.
  • CHRISTIAN COURTIS: Christian Courtis authored a background paper on international human rights mechanisms: Monitoring Disability Rights through the International Human Rights Framework. Christian lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he is a clerk with the Buenos Aires Supreme Court. He is a Law Professor at the University of Buenos Aires Law School, where he teaches and researches about human rights, social policy and equality issues. Prior to working for the Supreme Court, Christian was the Director of the Legal Aid Program for People with Mental Disabilities at C.E.L.S., a well-known human rights N.G.O. located in Buenos Aires. He served several times as expert for the United Nations Division for Social Policy and Development regarding human rights and disability issues.
  • YVONNE PETERS: Yvonne Peters authored a background paper on monitoring tools, Creating International Tools for Monitoring the Human Rights of People with Disabilities. Yvonne lives in Winnipeg, Canada where she is a human rights lawyer with a special interest in disability rights and women's rights. She provides legal advice on equality issues to Canadian labour unions, community groups, governments and the private sector. She is an active member of both the women's movement and the disability rights movement and she serves on the Equality Rights Committee of D.A.W.N. (DisAbled Women’s Network) Canada.
  • RICHARD LIGHT: Richard Light authored a paper for D.R.P.I. describing the Disability Awareness in Action (D.A.A.) Human Rights Project, which is based in London, England. At the time the paper was written, Richard was Research and Publications Director at D.A.A. and editor of the Disability Tribune. In November 2002, he was appointed the Director of D.A.A.R.T. Disability and Human Rights Centre in London.

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