The National Disability Authority Annual Conference 2025 is taking place on Thursday, 16 October 2025, 9:30am – 16:15pm. The theme of the event is ‘Parenting, Relationships, and Sexual & Reproductive Rights in the context of Article 23 UNCRPD’. The event will be a hybrid event with the physical venue at the Havelock Suite, Aviva Stadium, Dublin and online participation via Zoom.
The National Disability Authority’s 2025 Annual Conference will examine the implementation of Article 23 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) in Ireland. Article 23 UNCRPD focuses on the right of persons with disabilities to marry and to have a family and requires measures to eliminate discrimination against disabled persons in all areas relating to parenthood, relationships, family, and sexual and reproductive rights.
The conference will consider the barriers faced by disabled people in realising their equal right to family life, and also the proposed solutions and good practices in supporting and empowering disabled people to have meaningful and healthy family lives and relationships. Topics which will be explored include parenting, relationships and sexuality, maternity care and sexual and reproductive health and rights.