Ottmar Miles-Paul
Sunday, 02 August 2009 Last Updated ( Tuesday, 08 September 2009 )
For more than 20 years Ottmar Miles-Paul is involved in the Independent Living Movement. Himself visually and hearing impaired he played a key role in the development of the German movement for self-determined living of disabled people. After his studies about the Independent Living Movement in the United States, he inititiated and supported many initiatives for a self-determined and equal life of disabled people reaching from the centers for self-determined living in Germany and it's umbrella organisation to the involvement of campaigns for several equal rights laws nationally and internationaly. In the 90ies Ottmar Miles-Paul was involved in the development of the European Network on Independent Living (ENIL) and Disabled Peoples' International in Europe and served for example as vice-chairperson for Disabled Peoples' International in the European Union.
Currently Ottmar Miles-Paul serves as commissionaire for disability affairs of the government of the State of Rheinland-Pfalz in Germany in the department of social affairs of the State. Besides many other things, he is responsible for the development of an action plan for the implementation of the UN-Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities for the government of the State of Rheinland-Pfalz.
Ottmar Miles-Paul is 45 years old and lives in Mainz in Germany. E-Mail: ottmar.miles-paul@masgff.rlp.de - www.lb.rlp.de