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Election leaves UN disability committee with 17 men and just one woman

27th June 2016 by Global Disability Watch

Eleanor Lisney

Published by Disability News Service John Pring, June 23, 2016. Go to Original Source Disabled activists are calling on the UN to take action after elections to the 18-strong committee that oversees the implementation of its disability rights convention left it with just a single female member alongside 17 men. The committee on the rights of persons […]

Filed Under: Disability and Development, Policy Watch Tagged With: Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, CRPD

Disability in the SDGs: call for celebration?

18th February 2016 by Global Disability Watch

Sustainable Development Goals

The exclusion of disability from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the eight goals guiding the development agenda for the past 15 years was a critical concern, highlighting not only how deep the exclusion of disability from the development sector was. It perhaps resonated with the fact that disability was not even considered a development issue. […]

Filed Under: Disability and Development Tagged With: CRPD, DFID, Diane Kingston, Inclusive Decelopment, SDGs, Sustainable Development Goals, USAID

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