Advocacy Work
IDA works to mainstream the rights of persons with disabilities throughout the United Nations system and with other global stakeholders to promote the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, as a human rights treaty, and also as a social development tool.
This includes work towards the Conference of States Parties to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), the CRPD Committee and other UN treaty bodies, the Human Rights Council and its Universal Periodic Review, the UN Special Procedures, the UN General Assembly, UN agencies like OHCHR, ILO, UNICEF, UN DESA, UNHCR, WHO, UNDP, as well as the Inter-Agency Support Group to the CRPD.
