Trans Rights Pre-Conference - 28th October
This conference is a preconference to ILGA-Europe's Annual Conference. It is organised by ILGA-Europe in partnership with Transgender Europe’s Steering Group.
Below you can see the programme, the declaration which was approved by the conference as an output and some pictures
The programme were:
| 09:00 – 09:30 |
Welcome & Framing of the Conference |
| Welcome: |
Silvan Agius, ILGA-Europe |
| Julia Ehrt, Transgender Europe & TrIQ |
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| Speakers: |
Michael Farrugia, Shadow Minister for Social Policy |
| John Dalli, Maltese Minister for Social Policy |
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| 09:30 – 11:00 |
Panel Discussion - European regional organisations and their efforts for trans equality |
| Chair: |
Linda Freimane, ILGA-Europe & Mozaika |
| Speakers: |
Israel Butler, Fundamental Rights Agency |
| Belinda Pyke, European Commission |
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| Mandana Zarrehparvar, EQUINET |
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| Dennis van der Veur, Council of Europe |
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| 11:30 – 13:00 |
Panel Discussion - Good practice models from national administrations |
| Chair: |
Stephen Whittle, Transgender Europe & PFC |
| Presentations: |
Dutch Equal Treatment Commission |
| UK Equality and Human Rights Commission |
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| Speakers: |
Hillary Third, Scottish Government |
| Peter Tai Christensen, Swedish Equality Ombudsman’s Office |
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| Michel Pasteel, Institute for the equality of women and men |
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| 14:30 – 16:15 |
3 x Parallel Good Practice Workshops |
| Workshop 1 |
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| Chair: |
Carola Towle, UNISON |
| Rapporteur: |
Leslie Sherlock, TENI |
| Workshop 2 |
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| Chair: |
Richard Köhler, Transgender Europe & ILGA-Europe |
| Rapporteur: |
Ruth Baldacchino, ILGA-Europe & MGRM |
| Workshop 3 |
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| Chair: |
Cat McIlroy, TENI |
| Rapporteur: |
Louis Bailey, TREC |
| 16:45 – 17:30 |
Concluding Panel - Toward the way forward |
| Chair: |
Louise Ashworth, ILGA-Europe & UNISON |
| Panellists: |
Silvan Agius, ILGA-Europe |
| Julia Ehrt, Transgender Europe & TrIQ |
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| Evening Programme |
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| 19:00 |
Océan Crisscrossing Performance |
| Performer: |
Océan le Roy |
| Official launch of the Serious Game audiovisual installation |
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| Artists: |
Anja Weber and Sabine Ercklentz |
| 20:30 |
Dinner at Le Chef, Valletta |
European institutions make commitments to fight discrimination against trans people
Today the “Trans Rights Conference: Putting Trans Rights on the European Agenda” was held by ILGA-Europe and Transgender Europe as a pre-conference to ILGA-Europe’s 13th Annual Conference starting tomorrow.
Trans Right Conference
ILGA-Europe and Trangender Europe held a joint conference on the 28th October 2009 , which also included a social programme in the evening with a performance and an opening of an exhibition.
Declaration of the Trans Rights Conference
The delegates at Trans Right Conference in prior the ILGA-Europe Annual Conference 2009 in Malta, agreed on the declaration below.
