Response by the International Disability Alliance to the Zero Draft of the Political Declaration to be adopted at the HLPF on Sustainable Development: Call for meaningful inclusion of persons with disabilities

Response by the International Disability Alliance to the Zero Draft of the Political Declaration to be adopted at the HLPF on Sustainable Development:

Call for meaningful inclusion of persons with disabilities

12 May 2023

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Ambrose Murangira making remarks during HLPF

The High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) is the UN platform for the global follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda. 

Persons with disabilities are recognised as a distinct Stakeholder Group (the Stakeholder Group of Persons with Disabilities), and will be organising side events, registering multi-stakeholder partnerships and voluntary commitments in support of the SDGs. IDA and the International Disability and Development Consortium have support the coordianation of the Stakeholder Group.

The High-Level Political Forum, the United Nations central platform for follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals, provides for the full and...

The global disability rights movement has been guided by the adage “nothing about us without us”, which superficially may seem a very simple principle to implement. However, persons with disabilities,...