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26 June 2023 | Disabilities
An activist who wants to highlight the challenges and opportunities for people living with Down syndrome has told UN News how he wants the voices of people with disabilities to be heard “louder and louder” around the world.
Nicholas Herd is a…
26 June 2023 | Disabilities
In a noteworthy gathering during the 16th session of the Conference of States Parties to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (COSP16), the Side Event titled, "Global Good Practices: UN Disability and Development…
21 June 2023 | Disabilities
In the margins of COSP16, the Permanent Mission of Italy co-hosted two high-level side events aimed at promoting accessibility and inclusion for persons with disabilities.
The first event, titled "Ensuring Accessibility and Inclusion for Persons…
20 June 2023 | Disabilities
The Permanent Mission of Greece to UN, in cooperation with the European Parliament, convened a side event on the occasion of COSP16
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“Building up a Disability-Inclusive Democracy: Innovative parliamentary policies and structures to advance…
20 June 2023 | Disabilities
In this side event, speakers representing a variety of perspectives discussed impacts of national, regional and international disability strategies and action plans and what determine the success of their implementation. The speakers shared…
14 June 2023 | Disabilities
To date, national statistics are only rarely disaggregated by disability status. Often, the little data we find on disability focuses on disability prevalence. This has contributed to persons with disabilities’ being often invisible in human rights…
10 October 2022 | Disabilities
On International Day of Education, the African Disability Forum and Humanity & Inclusion release a short video promoting the Manifesto to advance the inclusion of persons with disabilities in education across the African continent.
Watch the…
04 December 2021 | Disabilities
An estimated 1 billion people – about 15% of the world’s population – are living with disabilities, and their exclusion has worsened during the global COVID-19 crisis. It is imperative that persons with disabilities do not remain excluded from the…
29 November 2021 | Disabilities
Eddie Ndopu, an award-winning disability activist from South Africa, and one of 17 United Nations advocates for the Sustainable Development Goals, lives with spinal muscular atrophy, and faces many difficulty daily challenges. Ahead of International…
26 August 2021 | Disabilities
WeThe15, which aspires to be the biggest ever human rights movement to represent the world’s 1.2 billion persons with disabilities, aims to end discrimination towards persons with disabilities and act as a global movement publicly campaigning for…
12 August 2021 | Disabilities
True Colors Festival (TCF), presented by The Nippon Foundation, is a long-running international festival of performing arts that celebrates diversity and inclusion, and the fact that we are One World, One Family. TCF brings people together to…
12 August 2021 | Disabilities
Accessible Europe is held yearly by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the European Commission (EC) under the framework of the Regional Initiative for Europe on Accessibility, affordability and skills development for all to ensure…