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A side-event to the 16th Conference of States Parties (COSP) to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with disabilities was organized to discuss the challenges and opportunities to advance health equity for persons with disabilities. This event…
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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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…