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UN launches first report on disability rights

The UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs on Monday launched the first UN Flagship report on Disability and Development.

The report focuses on “Realization of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by, for and with persons with disabilities.” The SDGs are a collection of 17 global goals set by the UN in 2015, which include ending global poverty and hunger, implementing sustainable environmental practices and more.

The report shows that persons with disabilities are at a disadvantage regarding the UN’s SDGs. However, it also “highlights the growing number of good practices that can create a more inclusive society in which [persons with disabilities] can live independently.”

The report was issued during the UN’s International Day of Persons with Disabilities on Monday. The day’s theme was “Empowering persons with disabilities and ensuring inclusiveness and equality” and looked at ways in which persons with disabilities contributed to eradicate discrimination and intolerance against them and to promote “an equitable and sustainable development envisaged in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.”

With the Day of Persons with Disabilities and the Flagship Report, the UN seeks to realize more fully the SDGs’ fundamental principles of dignity for individual persons and equality among all by ensuring the full participation of persons with disabilities in the creation of societies which make their needs central.

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