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| Disabilities
In a historic move, ten years ago, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) was adopted. It was a critical and outstanding achievement, bringing hope to a billion persons with disabilities worldwide. Ten years…
| Poverty Eradication
Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for the 2030 Agenda requires extraordinary cooperation and leadership from the private sector. In his opening address at the 2016 United Nations Global Compact Leaders Summit, Secretary-General Ban…
| Disabilities, | Poverty Eradication, | Social Inclusion, | Women
Over the past year, 60 million people have been forced from their homes worldwide due to conflict, human rights deprivations, and economic hardship. As a result, the international community is facing the biggest refugee and migration crisis…
| Disabilities, | Poverty Eradication, | Social Inclusion, | Women
Over the past year, 60 million people have been forced from their homes worldwide due to conflict, human rights deprivations, and economic hardship. As a result, the international community is facing the biggest refugee and migration crisis…
| Disabilities, | Poverty Eradication, | Social Inclusion, | Women
Over the past year, 60 million people have been forced from their homes worldwide due to conflict, human rights deprivations, and economic hardship. As a result, the international community is facing the biggest refugee and migration crisis…
| Disabilities, | Poverty Eradication, | Social Inclusion, | Women
Over the past year, 60 million people have been forced from their homes worldwide due to conflict, human rights deprivations, and economic hardship. As a result, the international community is facing the biggest refugee and migration crisis…
| Disabilities
Implementing the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) is strongly tied to the implantation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), stated Lenni Montiel, Assistant…
| Disabilities
Large, international sporting events have the power to change the way people think and can promote sustainable and inclusive development, particularly for persons with disabilities. Hosting the Paralympic Games is one event that can change the way a…
| Disabilities
Equality and full participation of persons with disabilities in society needs to follow a rights-based approach to inclusion, as opposed to a medicalised model that defines inclusion. Persons with disabilities need to be recognised as fully-fledged…
| Disabilities
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| Disabilities, | Social Inclusion
The international community needs “to demonstrate an inclusive, people-centred approach which engages the whole of society and all sectors,” said Robert Glasser, the Special-Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction.…
| Disabilities, | Social Inclusion
The international community needs “to demonstrate an inclusive, people-centred approach which engages the whole of society and all sectors,” said Robert Glasser, the Special-Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction.…