My name is Umi Asaka. I am a Junior Research Fellow at the Donald Beasley Institute (DBI). DBI is a national independent disability research institute in Ōtepoti – Dunedin.  As a signatory to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), the New Zealand government is obligated to commission disabled people […]

This is a final friendly reminder that Phase One of the Disabled Person-Led Monitoring of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (Health and Wellbeing) closes this Friday, 24th of July 2020.  So far we’ve had an incredible response, with a great number of disabled people and their whānau sharing their ideas […]