FIMITIC

Speech by Mr Riccardo RONCORONI

3rd FIMITIC Women Conference on "Improving quality of life of women with disabilities"

ZAGREB - CROATIA
7/9 November  2003

Mr Chairman, Official Authorities, Ladies and Gentlemen,

Your conference is indeed a major event for women with disabilities not only in Croatia, as hosting Country, but also in Europe at large. I would therefore like to start, on behalf of the European Commission, by congratulating all the organisers for having organised such an international conference.

The Third FIMITIC Women Conference in cooperation with the Croatian Union of Associations of Persons with Disabilities - SOIH - and under auspices of the Secretary General of Council of Europe, Mr.

As o­ne of the activities in the European Year of Persons with Disabilities, the Croatian Union of Associations of Persons with Disabilities, member of which is also the Croatian Association of Disabled Workers, a member of FIMITIC, has held in Zagreb the Round Table o­n promoting the Social Model of Disabilities o­n 23rd July 2003.

The final update of the documents referring to the Conference have been made.
They can all be downloaded by clicking o­n the links below:

• Information (MS Word, 108 kB)
• Information (PDF, 211 kB)
• Registration form (MS Word, 28 kB)

You can also click "read more" to read the Information regarding the Conference.
 

Something extra was offfered at the idyllic Siofok at the southern edge of the Lake Balaton by FIMITIC´s member association MEOSZ (National Federation of Associations of Physically Disabled Persons in Hungary) on August 21-23, 2003.