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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…
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Promoting the rights of persons with disabilities and including them in society, as managers, employees, suppliers and consumers is a triple win: a win for persons with disabilities, a win for business, and a win for the society in general.
Many…
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Double discrimination can take place when one person simultaneously belongs to two separate minority or marginalised groups, making it harder to live and average, fruitful life. Such is the situation experienced by many women with disabilities where…
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1. Highlights from the Week
For the first time since the entry into force of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), persons with disabilities and their representative organizations were meaningfully…
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The 2030 Agenda calls upon us to leave no one behind. This principle is rarely as prominent as it is with persons with disabilities. They are often forgotten among other priorities that shadow their needs, forcing them to live in a world not built…
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As the largest and most diverse international disability meeting in the world kicks off at the United Nations in New York, leading experts in the field are calling for greater recognition of a range of human rights and fundamental freedoms for…
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At the 10th session of the Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, taking place from 13-15 June, UN Women will amplify the voices of women with disabilities and highlight the importance of their…
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The Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction was inaugurated yesterday by the President of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto, as some 6,000 participants descended on the coastal town of Cancun for a series of working meetings to make progress on…