UN TO SPOTLIGHT DISABILITY INCLUSIVE DEVELOPMENT AT HIGH-LEVEL MEETING NEXT WEEK

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Date: 20 Sep 2013 18:00:00 -0400
Subject: UN TO SPOTLIGHT DISABILITY INCLUSIVE DEVELOPMENT AT
HIGH-LEVEL MEETING NEXT WEEK
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UN TO SPOTLIGHT DISABILITY INCLUSIVE DEVELOPMENT AT HIGH-LEVEL MEETING
NEXT WEEKNew York, Sep 20 2013 6:00PMAhead of next week's high-level
meeting to discuss the role of persons with disabilities in
contributing to overall development, senior United Nations officials
today urged the international community to advance the full and
effective participation of the one billion persons with disabilities
in society and in development beyond 2015.

"This is a group of the society too long considered a vulnerable group
of society in need of help, while on the contrary, this is a
resourceful group of society that can contribute in an enormous way to
development," said Daniela Bas, Director of the Division for Social
Policy and Development at the UN Department of Economic and Social
Affairs (UN-DESA).

Addressing journalists in New York, Ms. Bas emphasized that the
upcoming meeting is meant to highlight "persons, persons, persons"
with disability.

The General Assembly will convene on Monday at UN Headquarters in New
York the first of its kind High-level Meeting on Realization of the
Millennium Development Goals and other Internationally agreed
Development Goals (MDGs) for Persons with Disabilities, focused on
'The way forward: a disability inclusive development agenda towards
2015 and beyond.'

The meeting will result in an action-oriented outcome document
supporting the aims of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with
Disabilities (CRPD) and the achievement of the eight anti-poverty
targets known MDGs, and the sustainable development agenda beyond
their completion in 2015.

The meeting is being organized with participation of the UN Children's
Fund (UNICEF), UN World Health Organization (WHO) and other UN
agencies, funds and programmes, as well as Member States and civil
society.

Also addressing journalists, Dr. Jacob Kumaresan, Executive Director
of the UN World Health Organization (WHO) Office in New York said that
healthcare needs of people with disabilities and without are the same,
ranging from immunizations to cancer screenings, but that people with
disabilities often also have special needs, such as rehabilitation.

He noted that people with disabilities are three times more likely to
be denied adequate healthcare, and that half of all disabled people
are likely to suffer unexpected health expenditure that puts them and
their families in poverty.

Monday's meeting will also address the importance of reaching children
with disabilities during humanitarian responses and natural disasters,
the Senior Adviser on Children with Disabilities at UNICEF, Rosangela
Berman Bieler.

She told the story of Fareeda who, during an emergency, was offered a
wheelchair by several organizations, but none checked to see if she
wanted to go to school, if she had food, or housing.
"This shows how development needs to improve to be able to address
issues of children with disabilities, of people with disabilities,"
Ms. Bieler said.

In May, UNICEF devoted its 'State of the World's Children 2013' to
children with disabilities.

The report's underlying message is that girls and boys with
disabilities "are not problems" but sisters, brothers, daughters, sons
and friends with favourite foods and songs, dreams and rights.
Eschewing a focus on traditional notions of "rescuing" the child, the
report instead spotlights investment in removing the barriers that
impede the realization of a child's rights.

Among its key recommendations, UNICEF urges countries that have not
yet done so to ratify and implement the CRPD and the Convention on the
Rights of the Child (CRD).

There are currently 127 countries and the European Union that have
ratified the CPBD – these States Parties are required to promote full
equality and participation of persons with disabilities in society –
and 76 which have signed the CRD.Sep 20 2013 6:00PM
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