Achieving gender equality and empowering all women and girls with disabilities
Women with disabilities are often subjected to double discrimination due to their gender and disability status and continue to be at a disadvantage in most spheres of society and development. Available data suggests that the gap is stark compared with men without disabilities: women with disabilities are three times more likely to have unmet needs […]
Ensuring inclusive and quality education for all persons with disabilities
Persons with disabilities remain less likely to attend school and complete primary education and more likely to be illiterate than persons without disabilities. Available data reveals that, on average, one in three children with disabilities of primary school age is out of school, compared with one in seven children without disabilities. Primary school completion is […]
General Assembly Notes With Appreciation 2018 UN Flagship Report on Disability and Development
Member States today took note with appreciation of the 2018 UN Flagship Report on Disability and Development through two resolutions adopted in the General Assembly. The first resolution titled “Promoting social integration through social inclusion” (A/C.3/74/L.17/Rev.1) and the second titled “Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Optional Protocol […]
Accessing sexual and reproductive health services and reproductive rights for all persons with disabilities
Persons with disabilities have equal needs to access sexual and reproductive health-care services as those without disabilities and have similar requirements for family planning and childbirth. However, misperceptions about persons with disabilities and the assumption that persons with disabilities are not sexually active has contributed to little attention being paid to ensuring that persons with […]
Doha International Conference on Disability and Development Concludes with 11 Recommendations
The Doha International Conference on Disability and Development was held on 7-8 December 2019, under the guidance and patronage of Her Highness Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, Founder of Qatar Foundation for Social Work and its affiliated civil society centers. The conference’s landmark outcome – the Doha Declaration – forms a core reference point internationally for policy […]
Secretary-General Stresses Persons with Disabilities are Central to Achieving Promise of 2030 Agenda
Speakers in yesterday’s launch of the observance of the 2019 International Day of Persons with Disabilities – held at United Nations Headquarters in New York – stressed that the voices of persons with disabilities serve to make society more inclusive and sustainable and are essential to implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The event […]
Calendar of Major Events 2020
The Copenhagen Declaration on Social Development and its Programme of Action have guided multilateral action on social development since 1995. Adopted at the World Summit on Social Development (WSDD) in Copenhagen in March 1995, the Declaration emphasized the eradication of poverty as an ethical, social, political and economic imperative. The Copenhagen Declaration was adopted by […]
Doha International Conference on Disability and Development 2019
The Doha International Conference on Disability and Development was held on 7-8 December 2019, under the guidance and patronage of Her Highness Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, Founder of Qatar Foundation for Social Work and its affiliated civil society centers. The overall theme of the conference was “Harnessing the Power of Sustainable Development to Advance the Rights […]
Disability and Development Report
Disability-inclusive development is an essential condition for a sustainable future. In 2015, the United Nations adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, pledging to leave no one behind in the global efforts to realize the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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Reports, resolutions and other documents related to the UN intergovernmental process from the General Assembly, the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), the Commission for Social Development, the Human Rights Council, and the Inter-Agency Support Group (IASG) for the CRPD.
