Dinah Radtke
Wednesday, 29 July 20091947 born in Bamberg, Germany
1978 – 1990 translator for English and French
1977 co-founder of the Students' Initiative for Disabled Persons
1988 co-founder of the CIL Erlangen, employed at the CIL ever since, peer-counsellor, since 1997 senior head of the CIL counselling service
1990 co-founder of ISL, the umbrella organisation of CILs in Germany , since 1995 responsible for international matters
1993 elected member of the Word Council of Disabled People's International (DPI)
since then responsible for different offices, e.g. chair of women's committee
1993 assisted in developing an educational concept for peer-counselling in
Germany, since 1995 teacher of peer-counselling
1993 Honorary Letter of the city of Erlangen for social merits, 1997 Honorary Medal
of Bavaria for merits of men and women who work voluntarily, 2000 bestowment of Federal Cross of Merit by President Johannes Rauh
1996 organisation of the first big European conference "Independent Living of Women with Disability“, followed by further conferences
2004-2007 elected Deputy Chair of DPI, special area of responsibility Human Rights
2005 – 2006 participation in the 6., 7. and 8. meeting of the Ad-Hoc-Committee of the UN Convention on the Rights of Disabled Persons, co-chair of the international caucus of women with disabilit ies in NGOs, representative of the international disability caucus (IDC)
2006 – 2008 participation in the organisation of several congresses and conferences, e.g. in Korea, Spain, Croatia, Canada and also as co-chair and world council member of DPI
2008 – 2009 active participation in several events in Germany given the ratification of the UN Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disability