The implementation of DRPI Portugal began in October 2010 through a joint initiative of CAPP and the School of Social and Political Sciences, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian and Instituto Nacional para a Reabilitação, I.P. DRPI-Portugal mobilised financial, technical and human resources from the three bodies in the areas of disability, human rights and research and it was a first-time initiative for monitoring the human rights of persons with disabilities. It is a ground-breaking project in Portugal and Europe and it is intended to be open to the participation of civil society in general and organisations representing people with disabilities in particular.
Project aims
This project is intended to create the right conditions for systematic monitoring of laws, policies, social practices and media representations on disability in Portuguese society in light of human rights and particularly the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The idea is to contribute to the scientific knowledge of the forms of discrimination and violation of human rights affecting people with disabilities in Portugal, a fairly unexplored area in social and legal sciences in Portugal.
Principal Investigator
Paula Campos Pinto
Partners
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian and Instituto Nacional para a Reabilitação, I.P.
Advisory Board
Associação de Cegos e Amblíopes de Portugal (ACAPO)
Associação de Pais para a Educação de Crianças Deficientes Auditivas (APECDA)
Associação Portuguesa de Deficientes das Forças Armadas (ADFA)
Associação Portuguesa de Hemofílicos (APH)
Associação Portuguesa de Deficientes (APD)
Federação Portuguesa das Associações de Surdos (FPAS)
Federação das APPC
FENACERCI
Fundação LIGA.
Duration of project
November 2011 to February 2012
Pilot study - DRPI-Portugal
The aim of the DRPI-Portugal study was to monitor individual experiences of human rights from the perspective of people with disabilities in Portugal. It involved 32 in-depth interviews with adults with different types of disability in three areas of the country (Lisbon, Porto and the Algarve). Interviews were used to collect data on the human rights situation in persons with disabilities’ everyday lives. The scientifically based study shows to what extent people with disabilities are able to exercise their citizenship and the barriers that they have to face.