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International Disability Alliance appoints Colin Allen as new Chair
New York, NY, 1 July 2016 — Today Mr. Colin Allen...
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IDA Comments on the CRC Committee’s Draft General Comment on the Rights of the Child during Adolescence
IDA welcomes Draft General Comment on the implementation of the rights of the child during adolescence, elaborated and published by the Committee on...
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IDA Submission for the General Comment on Children in Street Situations
IDA welcomes the initiative of the Committee on the Rights of the Child to develop a General Comment on the rights of children...
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Endorsements to the HLPF 2016 Submission by Persons with Disabilities
Endorsements, by civil society organisations, of the position paper submitted to the 2016 Session of the High-Level Political Forum (HLPF), on behalf of...
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Statement to the Negotiations on the Zero-Draft Ministerial Declaration of the 2016 HLPF
Negotiations on the zero-draft Ministerial Declaration of the 2016 High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development convened under the auspices of the Economic and...
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Statement to the First Informal Discussion on the HLPF Ministerial Declaration
Statement on behalf of the Stakeholder Group of Persons with Disabilities, delivered by Maryanne Diamond.
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Leave No One Behind - HLPF 2016 Position Paper by Persons with Disabilities
Persons with disabilities comprise an estimated 15 per cent of the world’s population, or one billion people, of whom 80 per cent live...
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HLPF 2016 opening statment by José Maria Viera
Statement by José Maria Viera to the Opening Session of the 2016 High-level Political Forum:
I would like to briefly share with you...
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Persons with Disabilities Excluded from National Sustainable Development Plans
(15 July 2016, New York) 80% of persons with disabilities live in developing countries and have won a hard-fought role in designing...