Dear Agora participants!
 
You’ll be present at the Agora in Zaragoza but haven’t decided yet
whether to attend a workshop or which one to choose? 
It’s your first Agora, maybe, and you haven’t got a clear overview of
all the WS offers?  Or, you’re an experienced member looking for
something new and striking?
 
Either way, may I draw your attention to the WSs organised by the HRWG
?!  
The Human Rights Working Group will be present at the Agora with two
different workshops. 
The first one, a year plan workshop, organised together with the CD, is
focusing on European Identity, whereas the second one, a long term
project WS, tackles the topic of disability within AEGEE.
 
But have a closer look at WS descriptions:
 
 
(1)
What's European Identity?
Friday 24th of October 2003, hour 11:30-13:30
 
Personal Details Workshop Leader
WS Leaders: Anikó Vass (CD) and Anita Duvnjak (HRWG)
 
This year plan workshop organised by the CD and the HRWG aims at shaping
and starting up the possible year-plan project in the frame of the
approved topic European Identity.
 
Right here, right now … Time to work out and join the next year-plan
project, which is cultural and human rights oriented. The workshop will
not only give all the participants the chance to shape but also to join
later the future project.
We would like to see a potential project team’s emergence at the
workshop and we expect the participants to contribute to our already
existing ideas to actually draft the entire project with our help.
 
Together with your active contribution we’ll hopefully have a potential
project drafted which will serve us a starting point after the agora, as
well as a potential project team’s emergence.
 
 
(2)
AEGEE and Disability:
Starting a relationship or else strengthening it?
Saturday, 25th of October 2003, Session 2, Hour 14:30-16:30
Personal Details Workshop Leader
WS Leaders: Luca Falcone (HRWG) and Alistair de Gaetano (HRWG)
 
Project workshop – long term
 
 
What does it mean for AEGEE to open up to the reality of disability? Is
AEGEE today already a structure accessible to disabled persons, or not?
How can one render the relationship between disabled persons and the
association more immediate and “natural”?
 
How many locals in AEGEE have disabled persons among their members? How
many AEGEE locals have hosted disabled youth as participants at their
events? What kind of relationship has there been between them and AEGEE?
 
Can AEGEE activities be an unconquerable barrier for disabled persons?
If so, how can one break these barriers, and truly allow everyone to
live the wonderful experiences offered by our association? Do mental
barriers with respect to disabled persons exist within AEGEE? What is
the real meaning of “disabled”? What are the real limitations posed by
the handicap in question? How can one work towards preventing the
furthering of these limitations?
 
 
WORKSHOP STRUCTURE (time allocated: 2 h)
 
20 min : Presentation of juridical materials on disability (European
Convention on Human Rights, European Union Regulations, etc.) and
discussion with participants.
 
60 min : Presentation by Francesco Casaburi and Carmine Greco, relating
their experience, and open discussion with all participants (ways of
opening up and mental barriers).
 
20 min : Subdivision of participants into groups and presentation by
every group listing real limits to accessibility of AEGEE events to
disabled persons, and ways of eliminating these.
 
20 min : Final feedback.
 
***
 
Considering that the handicap, for the disabled person, spells a strong
sense of exclusion, which often impedes the person from enjoying life’s
opportunities, including the experiences of moral and cultural growth
offered by AEGEE, it becomes obligatory to ask how far and in what way
the activities of our association are accessible to disabled persons.
At this point, it is useful to look into the actual number of disabled
persons within AEGEE, and to the number of such persons who, even though
interested in AEGEE, do not come forward just because of their handicap.
 
Is travelling a non-possibility for persons who lack mobility, or who
are unable to see or hear? An answer rich in such perspectives can come
from Francesco Casaburi, who is deprived of the faculty of sight, and of
the person accompanying him, Carmine Greco, through interaction with
members of AEGEE-Salerno, and participants at the AEGEE-Valletta Summer
University and the Rainbow Regional Meeting earlier this year.
 
***
 
 
Curious? Convinced? Craving for participation?
 
The HWRG is looking forward to your numerous attendance at our WSs on
Friday and on Saturday!
 
See you all in Zaragoza!
 
Your HRWG Board
 
 
 
 
 
 
********************************************
Barbara Strebel
Contact Zürich
Secretary AEGEE Human Rights Working Group
 
Gheistrasse 47
CH – 8634 Hombrechtikon
Switzerland
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