UN Women
UNICEF
- UNICEF: COVID-19 response: Considerations for Children and Adults with Disabilities
- UNICEF: COVID19 Portal
International Labor Organisation
- COVID-19 and the World of Work: Ensuring the inclusion of persons with disabilities at all stages of the response
- COVID-19 and the World of Work
- Five key issues regarding persons with disabilities in the COVID19 response
- Disability Inclusive Social Protection Response to the COVID19 Crisis (word version)
World Health Organisation
- World Health Organisation: Disability Considerations during the COVID19 outbreak
- World Health Organisation (WHO): Resources on Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Pandemic
United Nations
- United Nations: A UN Framework for the immediate socio-economic response to Covid19
- United Nations: Preventing discrimination against people with disabilities in COVID-19 response
- United Nations: Launch of Humanitarian Appeal
- United Nations: Platform on COVID19
- UN's World Autism Awareness Day (2 April) focuses on the rights of autistic persons during the current pandemic
- Department of Economics and Social Affairs: Social Impact of COVID-19
- Department of Economics and Social Affairs: Various COVID19 resources
- Secretary-General Policy Brief: A Disability-Inclusive Response to COVID-19
- Secretary-General: Covid19 and disability page with statements, reports and communcations to the Press and Staff
- Special Envoy of the Secretary-General on Disability and Accessibility: Joint Statement “Local governments and persons with disabilities in relation to COVID-19" (in English, Spanish and French)
- Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights: COVID-19 and Human Rights Treaty Bodies
- Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights: Guidance on COVID-19 and persons with disabilities
- Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Opinion paper
- Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights: “Everyone has the right to life-saving interventions”
- CRPD Committee & Special Envoy of the United Nations Secretary-General on Disability and Accessibility: Joint Statement on COVID19
- Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Statement on the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and economic, social and cultural rights (pg. 3, para 15)
- Committee on the Rights of the Child: COVID 19 and children (paragraphs 6, 7 and 10 include references to children with disabilities)
- Human Rights Council: Virtual meeting with High Commissioner for Human Rights to discuss human rights implications of COVID-19 (UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ms. Bachelet delivers the statements from 2:07:10)
- Joint NGO statement on economic, social and cultural rights
- Joint NGO statement on the United Nations’ COVID-19 response
- Joint NGO statement on civil and political rights - Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights: Bachelet urges States to take extra steps to include people with disabilities
- Human Rights Council: Official statement within the Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General