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HR/5258

Key Messages ‘Loud and Clear’ during States Parties Conference on Disabilities Convention, President Says as Session Closes amid Calls to Spotlight Issues

The Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities closed its eighth session today, adopting three decisions that laid out the terms for its ninth session, and exploring ways to overcome pervasive discrimination in the provision of everything from health care and education to employment and disaster relief.

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With ‘Stroke of Your Pen’, Draft Development Agenda Can Be Amended to Include Explicit Reference to Disabilities, Convention’s States Parties Told

Around the world, more than 1 billion people with disabilities were desperately poor, dying of hunger and preventable disease, which made it essential for their explicit rights and needs to be mainstreamed in the new global development framework currently being negotiated, delegates stressed today as the Conference of States Parties to the Disabilities Convention opened its eighth session.

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Concluding Fourteenth Session, Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues Sends Nine Draft Reports to Economic and Social Council

The Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues concluded its fourteenth session today, sending nine draft reports to the Economic and Social Council containing proposals, recommendations and three draft decisions, including a call for the General Assembly to consider establishing a procedure to guarantee indigenous peoples’ participation in its seventieth session.

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Inclusion in Political Processes, Protection of Human Rights Focus, as Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues Continues Session

The recognition of indigenous peoples’ rights to self-determination, autonomy and self-governance must be woven into the post-2015 development agenda to ensure inclusive political participation and a sharpened focus on outstanding land disputes and other pressing concerns, delegates heard as the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues discussed emerging issues and continued its segment on rights.