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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> IDA_CRPD_Forum@yahoogroups.com [mailto:IDA_CRPD_Forum@yahoogroups.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, 22 March 2019 3:11 AM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [IDA_CRPD_Forum] ‘Leave No One Behind’ on World Down Syndrome Day, 21 March People with Down syndrome advocate to be included in the workplace [1 Attachment]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="gmail-m-5358244444040833527m-2114069836203169111font"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Cher Monsieur, chère Madame,</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="gmail-m-5358244444040833527m-2114069836203169111font"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">ci-joint/ci bas des infos sur la journée mondiale de la Trisomie 21 et des activités a Genève y inclus:</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="gmail-m-5358244444040833527m-2114069836203169111font"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">- évènement au Palais des Nations (13.50)</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="gmail-m-5358244444040833527m-2114069836203169111font"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">- Flash Mob sur la Place des Nations (16.30)</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="gmail-m-5358244444040833527m-2114069836203169111font"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">- animation du Jet D'Eau (19.00)</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="gmail-m-5358244444040833527m-2114069836203169111font"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Avec la participation des enfants et des adultes qui vivent avec la condition.</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="gmail-m-5358244444040833527m-2114069836203169111font"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Meilleures salutations et excellente journée.</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:8.0pt"><span class="gmail-m-5358244444040833527m-2114069836203169111font"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Nathan</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="center" style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center"><span class="gmail-m-5358244444040833527m-2114069836203169111font"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">PRESS RELEASE</span></b></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span class="gmail-m-5358244444040833527m-2114069836203169111font"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span class="gmail-m-5358244444040833527m-2114069836203169111font"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Geneva, 20 March, 2019</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span class="gmail-m-5358244444040833527m-2114069836203169111font"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span class="gmail-m-5358244444040833527m-2114069836203169111font"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Under embargo until: Thursday 21 March, 2019</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span class="gmail-m-5358244444040833527m-2114069836203169111font"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center"><span class="gmail-m-5358244444040833527m-2114069836203169111font"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">‘Leave No One Behind’ on World Down
Syndrome Day, 21 March</span></b></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center"><span class="gmail-m-5358244444040833527m-2114069836203169111font"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">People with Down syndrome advocate
to be included in the workplace</span></b></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span class="gmail-m-5358244444040833527m-2114069836203169111font"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></b></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span class="gmail-m-5358244444040833527m-2114069836203169111font"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">People with Down syndrome speak up and advocate for their human rights,
to government representatives and UN officials today in a side event to the United Nation’s Committee on the Rights of persons with Disabilities.</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span class="gmail-m-5358244444040833527m-2114069836203169111font"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span class="gmail-m-5358244444040833527m-2114069836203169111font"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#202124">My friends from school are going to get apprenticeships and I want to
get a job too - the same as my friends,” said Pearl Lüthy of Switzerland who has Down syndrome. “When I work I will have work colleagues and earn and spend my money to travel anywhere I want to go,” she added.</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span class="gmail-m-5358244444040833527m-2114069836203169111font"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#202124"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span class="gmail-m-5358244444040833527m-2114069836203169111font"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#202124">It is not automatic for people with Down syndrome to go to school with
their peers and often they are excluded from the workplace, or offered volunteer work.</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span class="gmail-m-5358244444040833527m-2114069836203169111font"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span class="gmail-m-5358244444040833527m-2114069836203169111font"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Robert Martin, the first person with an intellectual disability to be
elected to the UN’s Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities said, “Today we remind governments of their commitment to an accessible and inclusive environment for people with Down syndrome who want to </span></span><span class="gmail-m-5358244444040833527m-2114069836203169111font"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#202124">have
a job, earn a living and contribute. Hear their voice”.</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span class="gmail-m-5358244444040833527m-2114069836203169111font"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span class="gmail-m-5358244444040833527m-2114069836203169111font"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Side event: Palais des Nations, Room XVII from 13.50 – 14.50.</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span class="gmail-m-5358244444040833527m-2114069836203169111font"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="gmail-m-5358244444040833527m-2114069836203169111font"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Following the event at the UN, two events have been organized by the local Swiss Romande Down Syndrome Association.</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="gmail-m-5358244444040833527m-2114069836203169111font"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">1. Flashmob for WDSD! 16h30 at the Place des Nations. </span></b></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="gmail-m-5358244444040833527m-2114069836203169111font"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Under the 'Broken Chair', singing, dancing and live performances:</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="gmail-m-5358244444040833527m-2114069836203169111font"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">·</span></span><span class="gmail-m-5358244444040833527m-2114069836203169111font"><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> </span></span><span class="gmail-m-5358244444040833527m-2114069836203169111font"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">A
song called Moi Aussi - about rights for all - by a Swiss/Irish singer-songwriter (</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><a href="http://www.eoghanosullivan.com/ma-premiere-chanson-en-francais/" target="_blank"><span class="gmail-m-5358244444040833527m-2114069836203169111font"><span style="color:windowtext">http://www.eoghanosullivan.com/ma-premiere-chanson-en-francais/</span></span></a><span class="gmail-m-5358244444040833527m-2114069836203169111font">),</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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solo from a young violinist with Down syndrome from Zurich.</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="gmail-m-5358244444040833527m-2114069836203169111font"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">2. The famous Geneva landmark, le jet d'eau (water fountain), will be illuminated in blue and yellow for WDSD at
19.00.</span></b></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="gmail-m-5358244444040833527m-2114069836203169111font"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Photos by the flower clock in the jardin anglais - quai du General-Guisan</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="gmail-m-5358244444040833527m-2114069836203169111font"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">The 2019 event is sponsored by the Permanent Missions of Australia, Brazil, Israel and the UK to the United Nations
in Geneva and the International Labour Organization. It has support from the Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the International Disability Alliance </span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="gmail-m-5358244444040833527m-2114069836203169111font"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Nathan Rowe, </span></b></span><span class="gmail-m-5358244444040833527m-2114069836203169111font"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Capacity
Development Officer, Down Syndrome International,</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="gmail-m-5358244444040833527m-2114069836203169111font"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Nathan Rowe <</span></span><span class="gmail-m-5358244444040833527m-2114069836203169111colour"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><a href="mailto:nathan.rowe@ds-int...org" target="_blank"><span class="gmail-m-5358244444040833527m-2114069836203169111font">nathan.rowe@ds-int.org</span></a></span></span><span class="gmail-m-5358244444040833527m-2114069836203169111font"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">></span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span class="gmail-m-5358244444040833527m-2114069836203169111font"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">About Down Syndrome International</span></b></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span class="gmail-m-5358244444040833527m-2114069836203169111font"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">DSi is a UK-based international disabled people’s organisation, comprising
a membership of individuals and organisations from all over the world, committed to improving quality of life for people with Down syndrome, promoting their right to be included on a full and equal basis with others.</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span class="gmail-m-5358244444040833527m-2114069836203169111font"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">About ART 21 / Association Romande Trisomie 21</span></b></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span class="gmail-m-5358244444040833527m-2114069836203169111font"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">French-speaking Switzerland’s Down Syndrome Association groups more than
170 families to inspire, promote and act with information, training, research and exchange experiences of Down syndrome.</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span class="gmail-m-5358244444040833527m-2114069836203169111font"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:gray">Nathan Rowe</span></b></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:gray"><br>
<span class="gmail-m-5358244444040833527m-2114069836203169111font">Capacity Development Officer</span><br>
<span class="gmail-m-5358244444040833527m-2114069836203169111font">Down Syndrome International </span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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