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Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2020 at 23:53
Subject: [IDA Board: confidential] Professor Gerard Quinn appointed as the
new UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities
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*Image: Professor Gerard Quinn is the new UN Special Rapporteur on the
rights of persons with disabilities*

*International Disability Alliance congratulates Professor Gerard Quinn on
his appointment as the new UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons
with disabilities*

*The International Disability Alliance
<https://www.internationaldisabilityalliance.org/special-rapporteur-2020>
would like to congratulate Professor Gerard Quinn on his appointment as the
new UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities. Given
his extensive experience and expertise, we look forward to the
implementation of this important mandate in the coming years.*

It is a critical time for the rights of persons with disabilities, and we
trust that Professor Quinn will carry out his role in a way that ensures
inclusive, systematic and sustainable change to ensure the universal
respect, protection, and fulfillment of the rights of person with
disabilities, while fully considering multiple and intersecting forms of
discrimination.

The International Disability Alliance also looks forward to the Special
Rapporteur’s contribution to the successful implementation of the United
Nations Disability Inclusion Strategy as part of ongoing efforts to ensure
that the United Nations system is fit for purpose in relation to disability
inclusion.

Among his priorities, Mr. Quinn said that he will work to ensure that the
voices of persons with disabilities are heard loud and clear, in global
responses to general calamities caused by Covid-19, climate change and the
scourge of armed conflicts. He highlighted the need for systemic change to
underpin the gains of the UN CRPD, and to focus attention on the cultural
and structural changes needed for the Sustainable Development Goals to be
attained.

He will also continue to bring attention to the positive contribution of
persons with disabilities to peace-building, nation-building and
development, highlighting the need to promote their active citizenship.

Mr. Quinn is a Professor Emeritus in law at the National University of
Ireland, with a long career in public service. He sits on the scientific
committee of the European Union Fundamental Rights Agency (EU FRA, Vienna),
and has led the delegation of Rehabilitation International during the
drafting of the UN CRPD.  To learn more about Mr. Quinn, follow this link
<https://www.nuigalway.ie/centre-disability-law-policy/staff/staff-listing/gerardquinn/>
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