Launch of Zero Report on the occasion of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities

On the occasion of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, a new international comparative study on the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities - the Zero Report - has been launched.

Initiated by the Austrian Essl Foundation, it is the first of its kind. The core elements of the study are indicators on social inclusion of people with disabilities, together with Good Practices and Good Policies.

More than 100 activists from the disability rights movement, academics and experts from NGOs, foundations and international organizations, as well as persons with disabilities, have been cooperating in this first Zero Project Report. EFC European Consortium of Foundations on Human Rights and Disabilites has also been involved in this project.

Please find the Executive Summary, the full version of the Zero Report as well as information regarding the forthcoming International Conference on "Good Policies for Disabled People" (22-23 January 2012, Vienna) at www.zeroproject.org