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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.