Youth Advisory Board for the Tyrolean Monitoring Committee

The Tyrolean Monitoring Committee monitors the implementation of the UN CRPD in Tyrol. The members are only adults with and without disabilities, but the CRPD states that children with disabilities must have a say and must receive good support for this. So a pilot project was carried out with a group of young people with disabilities. From this, the Youth Advisory Board for the Tyrolean Monitoring Committee emerged in February 2019. We meet once a month at a wheelchair accessible Youth Centre in Innsbruck. We talk about human rights for children and adults with disabilities. We talk about our experience. These issues are particularly important to us:

• We want to work and we want to get a good education for work.
• Family, friendship, love and sexuality are very important to us. Some of us want to have children later, some do not.
• We are often segregated because of our disabilities. Many of us are stared at, laughed at, or called names. That's why equality and accessibility are very important issues for us. We talk to politicians, participate in conferences and give presentations.