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People with reduced mobility make up 35% of the population and rarely travel alone. It is in the tourism sector’s interest to develop accessible destinations for a section of the population that expects only one thing: to be able to travel as…
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Inclusive education, economic empowerment and technological innovations were the focus of discussion on Tuesday as world leaders gathered in London for the first-ever United Nations-backed Global Disability Summit.
Ahead of the Summit, Deputy…
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Cementing and protecting the rights of around 1.5 billion people around the world in accordance with the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is a “moral imperative” said United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on…
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The 11th session of the Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities will take place at the UN Headquarters in New York from 12 to 14 June 2018.
During the Conference, 177 States Parties to the Convention…
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Women and girls were the focus on World Autism Awareness Day, observed on 2 April: a segment of the global population that faces “multiple challenges,” as UN Secretary-General António Guterres stated in his message for the Day.
Speaking at the…
![Special Event: Commemorative event on ÒBuilding our futureÓ, in observance of the first World Down Syndrome Day (21 March) [co-organized by the Permanent Missions of Brazil and Poland, the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, the United Nations ChildrenÕs Fund, Down Syndrome International and other stakeholders]](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_375x215/public/sdn/2021/508340-Special-Event-21_03_2012-11.57.18.jpg?itok=Svv5uJGd)
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People with Down syndrome, their advocates and supporters gathered at UN Headquarters in New York on Wednesday 21 March to rally employers and make sure they saw the benefits of enabling people with Down syndrome and disabilities to make…
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The Zero Project Conference 2018 will focus this year on Accessibility and will take place from 21 to 23 February in Vienna. The Conference will seek to connect invitees from many different sectors of society so that they can share and discuss…
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The 9th Session of the World Urban Forum (WUF9) will be the 1st session to focus on the implementation of the New Urban Agenda adopted in Habitat III. WUF9 will be instrumental to substantively feed into the inputs for the first report of the…
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On December 1st, the International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD) 2017 was marked at the UN Headquarters in New York under the theme: Transformation towards sustainable and resilient society for all. Governments, persons with…
| Disabilities, Social Inclusion
On December 1st, the International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD) 2017 was marked at the UN Headquarters in New York under the theme: Transformation towards sustainable and resilient society for all. Governments, persons with…
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During the 2017 International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD) on 1 December, the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Division for Social Policy and Development (UNDESA DSPD) is organizing a high-level expert…
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Children with disabilities deserve to have the same rights as everyone else, which is something that will have a "tremendous impact" on society as a whole.
This is the message from Emmanuel Elisha Ford, a 16-year-old Guyanese-American disabilities…