[Pdf-women] [PDFlist] UN Launches New Disability Inclusion Strategy - Gender

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On Fri, 28 Jun 2019, 12:26 PM Soloveni Vitoso <infor at pacificdisability.org
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> Direct Link to Full 30-Page 2019 *United Nations Disability Inclusion
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> UN LAUNCHES NEW DISABILITY INCLUSION STRATEGY – GENDER
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> https://www.un.org/development/desa/disabilities/news/news/sg-cosp.html
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> 12 June 2019 “When we fight to secure those rights, we move our world
> closer to upholding the core values and principles of the United Nations
> Charter”, he explained. “When we remove policies or biases or obstacles to
> opportunity for persons with disabilities, the whole world benefits”.
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> To this end, the UN chief said he was launching a new UN Disability
> Inclusion Strategy on Tuesday, “to raise the standards of the UN’s
> performance on disability inclusion across the board, and action to bring
> about the unified and transformative change we need”.
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> With an accountability framework to monitor progress and address
> challenges, the new strategy has clear benchmarks, and will encourage more
> persons with disabilities to work in, and be better supported by, the UN.
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> “I want the United Nations to be an employer of choice for persons with
> disabilities”, he stressed. “I want the United Nations to be fully
> accessible for one and all”.
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> According to Mr. Guterres: “We can no longer be a platform for change when
> persons with disabilities cannot access that platform, to speak”.
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> “Realizing the rights of persons with disabilities is a matter of justice
> as well as a common-sense investment in our common future”, the UN chief
> said, but “we have a long way to go in changing mindsets, laws and policies
> to ensure these rights”.
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> He urged participants to make the goals and the objectives of the
> Convention “a reality on the ground”.
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> Mr. Guterres cited last year’s first-ever UN Flagship Report on Disability
> and Development, which highlights core challenges, including
> disproportionate levels of poverty, lack of access to education, health
> services, employment and the under-representation of persons with
> disabilities in decision-making and political participation.
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> “We must do much more to address discrimination and exclusion,
> particularly against girls and women with disabilities”, he underscored.
> “We must also do much more on transportation, infrastructure and
> information and communications technology to make our cities, rural areas,
> and societies inclusive”.
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> “Together, we can raise awareness and remove barriers”, he maintained.
> “Together, with persons with disabilities as agents of change, we can build
> an inclusive, accessible and sustainable world”.
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> “My hope,” he concluded, “is that people with disabilities – particularly
> women and girls – one day live in a world that protects, respects and
> values us.”
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> ‘Greater visibility’
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> Addressing delegates in the General Assembly Hall, Catalina Devandas,
> Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities said that
> despite multiple agendas and competing priorities, “the rights of people
> with disabilities cannot be marginalized”.
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> She lauded the new UN Disability Inclusion Strategy to ensure that “people
> with disabilities are included in all development, human rights and
> humanitarian aid efforts”.
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> While calling it “an ambitious and far-reaching proposal that can mean a
> turning point for the inclusion of people with disability” in all pillars
> of the UN’s work, she warned that the strategy is “just the starting point
> of a long process”.
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> The UN expert called for the Member States to politically and financially
> support the strategy, flagging it as “a good investment” in strengthening
> the UN’s capacity to provide “better and greater support to national
> efforts to realize the rights of people with disabilities.”
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> “Social gains are only achieved when people fight for them”, she
> concluded. “It is this tireless fight that now allows people with
> disabilities to enjoy greater visibility on the international agenda”.
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