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Workshop: Enhancing coordination for a CRPD compliant SDG monitoring
Leonard Cheshire Disability, Handicap International and Sightsavers, on behalf of the International Disability and Development Consortium (IDDC) and the International Disability Alliance,
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Workshop to tackle impunity for witchcraft related human rights violations
Experts on witchcraft and human rights gathered in Geneva on 21 and 22 September in search of solutions to the issue, estimated to kill, maim and affect thousands of people every year and believed to be worsening.
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Belt and Road Disability Cooperation High-Level Event, Beijing
Mr Klaus Lachwitz, Board Member representing Inclusion International and Vladimir Cuk, IDA Executive Director, will be attending the Belt and Road Disability Cooperation High-Level Event
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Technical workshop: Global report on the situation of persons with Deafblindness
On 13 September 2017, Executive Board Members of the World Federation of the DeafBlind, as well as representatives from Sense International, the World Health Organisation (WHO), Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), and researchers from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Diseases, and staff of the International Disability Alliance (IDA) Secretariat met for the first time in Geneva for a technical meeting to discuss the provisional structure of the Global Report that will be presented during the World Federation of the DeafBlind General Assembly in Benidorm, Spain 2018.
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Side-event: SDG-CRPD implementation for equality for persons with disabilities: the role of organisations of persons with disabilities and National Human Rights Institutions
Co-Hosted by European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI) & IDA; sponsored by Office of High Commission for Human Rights & the Permanent Missions of Mexico and New Zealand