Beit Issie Shapiro’s Executive Director, Jean Judes, presented at the Plenary Round Table on the issue of Political Participation at the Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the rights of Persons with Disabilities the at United Nations Headquarters in New York, on 14 June 2018.

She presented Beit Issie Shapiro’s main tools for promoting political participation and equal recognition before the law: coalitions, self-advocacy and leadership development.