EBU Members' Newsletter

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As part of our ongoing work on the UNCRPD we have created a new questionnaire on article 33, National Implementation and Monitoring.

In May 2018, in Vilnius, the Lithuanian Association of the Blind and Visually Handicapped (LASS) organized an information session on the UNCRPD. The session was based on the EBU publication "The UNCRPD – a new look at our human rights".

As a member of the National Mechanism for Monitoring the Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (Me-CDPD), Tomé Coelho, President of ACAPO’s National Board, participated in the Work Forum on 29 May in Brussels on the implementation of the UN Convention.

The deadline of 7 July to send your country’s essays for the 2018 Onkyo World Braille Essay Contest is fast approaching. So far, unfortunately, we received very few texts, which is worrying!

You can now register for the first e-workshop “Getting to know EBU” to be held on Thursday 5 July from 10 to 11.30 UTC+2, in English.

With 100 people going blind every day in the UK, and knowing that these numbers will increase over the next 20 years, we need everyone to work to improve the state of our pavements.

13 countries entered the competition organised by EBU in order to share best practices in terms of employment of visually impaired people in Europe.

With the financial support of the European Commission EBU has produced its Annual Report 2017.

The BrailleTech organized by the Ligue Braille will be held in Brussels from 18 to 20 October 2018. It brings together all Belgian distributors of adapted equipment for the blind and partially sighted.