<div dir="auto">Dear CEO <div dir="auto">Thank you for the information shared </div><div dir="auto">Kind regards </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, 16 Jul 2019, 3:42 PM Setareki Macanawai <<a href="mailto:CEO@pacificdisability.org">CEO@pacificdisability.org</a> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<b>Subject:</b> [IDA_CRPD_Forum] WHAT HAPPENED DURING THE FIRST WEEK OF HLPF 2019?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">The Stakeholder Group of Persons with Disabilities had close to 50 participants attend the first week of the HLPF!</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#202020"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Mr. George Khoury was an official discussant during the opening session of the HLPF. </span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#202020"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">The Stakeholder Group of Persons with Disabilities delivered four official interventions during the first week of the HLPF.</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#202020"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">The SGPwD held an official side event entitled “Reducing inequalities: a look at persons with disabilities”. The side event addressed how to advance the implementation
of Goal 10 for persons with disabilities by bringing concrete, action-oriented recommendations in the context of education, employment, peace, justice and strong institutions. The side event was attended by over 100 people!</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#202020"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Jose Viera, Permanent Representative of the SGPwD, was a keynote speaker on Thursday in the official session on “Empowering people and ensuring inclusiveness and equality
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">The SGPwD held an official meeting with all HLPF participants to discuss strengthening the Stakeholder Group through the development of a 5-year strategic framework.
Forty-five people attended the meeting.</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#202020"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Stakeholder Group of Persons with Disabilities participant pre-meeting #1</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#202020"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">The SGPwD delegation held a work dinner at the International Disability Alliance office to go over the HLPF programme. Jose Viera, Permanent Representative of the SGPwD, and Mohammed Ali Loutfy, Alternate
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">During the morning session, George Khoury, representing the Stakeholder Group of Persons with Disabilities and National Association for the Rights of the Disability People (NARD) in Lebanon, spoke
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">During the afternoon session, Kamil Goungor from the European Disability Forum (EDF) intervened on behalf of the SGPwD by highlighting that “Ensuring that children have equal opportunities to learn
and socialize with their peers, using the same language such as sign language, easy read materials, braille documents as well as safeguarding diversity and qualification among teachers are integral parts of an inclusive education system.” </span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#202020"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">On Wednesday, the SGPwD organized an official HLPF side event in collaboration with the Delegation of the European Union to the United Nations, Permanent
Missions of Australia, Luxembourg, Belgium, Canada and the Republic of Zambia, International Disability Alliance, CBM, European Disability Forum, UNESCO Global Education Monitoring Report, UN OHCHR, Equinet, Leonard Cheshire, Bridging the Gap project, Humanity
& Inclusion and Disabled People’s Organisations Denmark entitled “Reducing inequalities: a look at persons with disabilities”. <br>
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Wanita Disabilitas Indonesia (HWDI), Laisa Vereti - Pacific Disability Forum, Rosario Galarza - RIADIS and Craig Mokhiber - OHCHR. </span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#202020"><br>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">The SGPwD held an official delegation meeting on the margins of the HLPF. The meeting was accessible with International Sign interpretation and real-time captioning and broadcast online to allow for
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</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">At the start of the meeting, Jose Viera, Permanent Representative of the SGPwD, and Mohammed Ali Loutfy, Alternate Representative of the SGPwD, provided a brief introduction to the Stakeholder
Group of Persons with Disabilities and its mandate to engage at the HLPF.. The overall objective of the meeting was to propose a method to further strengthen the Stakeholder Group through the development of a 5-year strategic framework which identifies and
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">The Stakeholder Group of Persons with Disabilities participated in the VNR Lab 2: Making progress visible - SDG data visualization platforms. Jose Viera, Permanent Representative of the SGPwD, intervened
with a compelling question asking if the new Open SDG Data Hub platform could disaggregate by disability. This is not yet possible, but we have connected with the coordinators of the platform and will be sure to collaborate as the platform develops t</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div>