GLOBAL CONFERENCE ON INCLUSIVE EDUCATION. October 21-23, 2009 Salamanca, Spain

The Conference was organised by Inclusion International & INICO (Universidad de Salamanca)
Sponsored by FUNDACION ONCE, Spanish Ministry of Education, Spanish Confederation of Organisations in favour of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities (FEAPS), Inclusion Europe.

Inclusion International gratefully acknowledges the support given from the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) to the Canadian Association for Community Living (CACL) for participants to attend the conference Return to Salamanca: Confronting the Gap - Rhetoric, Rights and Reality?

Around 400 participants from 57 countries attended the Global Conference on Incusive Education that took place in Salamanca, Spain on 21-23 October, 2009.

ANDORRA, ARGENTINA, ARMENIA, AUSTRIA, BELGIUM, BOLIVIA, BRAZIL, BULGARIA, CANADA, CAPE VERDE, CZECH REPUBLIC, CHILE, COLOMBIA, COSTA RICA, DENMARK, ECUADOR, EGYP, FINLAND, FRANCE, GERMANY, GEORGIA, , HONG KON, HONDURAS, HUNGARY, INDIA, IRELAND, ISRAEL, ITALY, LEBANON, LIBYA, LITHUANIA, NETHERLANDS , MEXICO, MALAYSIA, MOLDOVA, MOZAMBIQUE, NAMIBIA, NICARAGUA, NEW ZEALAND, NORWAY, PANAMA, PERU, PHILIPPINES, POLAND, PORTUGAL, REPUBLIC OF CROATIA, ROMANIA, RUSSIA, SERBIA, SOUTH AFRICA, SPAIN, SWEDEN, UNITED KINGDOM, URUGUAY, USA, ZAMBIA, ZIMBABWE.

The conference celebrated the anniversary of The Salamanca Statement (1994-2009)2009) adopted 15 years ago during the World Conference on Special Needs Education organised by UNESCO.(Salamanca, Spain, 10 June 1994).

Fifteen years later as we celebrate the UN Conventionon on the Rights of Persons' with Disability  coming into effect, Inclusion International and INICO have brought together self-advocates and their families, representatives from disability organisations, professors, researchers, government representatives and experts to Salamanca to asses the progress made and to set the agenda for renewed action in the years ahead.

At the end of the 3 day conference the following resolution was adopted:

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All presentations from the Global Conference will be published in the web page once we receive aunthorizations from all the speakers.

During the Conference the GLOBAL REPORT ON INCLUSIVE EDUCATION; Better Educatin for all When We are Included too.was lauched.

The Report identifies the sources of discrimination faced by children with intellectual disabilities in education and makes recommendations to governments and policy makers about how to address these issues. By reviewing both the international commitments made to inclusion and the knowledge that families have about what works, what doesn’t and why, this initiative will attempts to link local voices (and knowledge) to global processes for achieving Education for All.