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UN Virtual Event: Building Back Better Disability Inclusion

Creating an Accessible, Sustainable Post-COVID-19 World

Location

Online

Date & Time

December 4, 2020, 11:00 am – 12:45 pm

Description

Commemorative Event for International Day for Persons with Disabilities 2020: Action Toward a Disability-Inclusive, Accessible and Sustainable Post-COVID-19 World”

4 December 2020 (11.00 am-12:45 pm EST)  

Register via this link: 

https://www.un.org/development/desa/disabilities/international-day-of-persons-with-disabilities-3-december/idpd2020.html 


The event will include representatives of Member States, UN offices, organizations of persons with disabilities, civil society, and the private sector. It will emphasize the importance of disability-inclusive responses to COVID-19 and take stock of progress in “building back better,” including addressing the global policy framework on disability-inclusive development newly adopted by the General Assembly Third Committee this past November.

The UN system tools will be addressed, including those developed for the UN Disability Inclusion Strategy, the United Nations Partnership on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, UN Women and the World Bank. It will also focus on important steps taken by civil society and the private sector to “build back better” in a disability-inclusive manner, supporting  a disability-inclusive, accessible and sustainable post COVID-19 World”.

This event is organized by the United Nations Executive Office of Secretary-General (EOSG), UNDESA, UN Women, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ecuador, the Permanent Missions of Philippines and Tanzania and co-sponsored by UNPRPD/UNDP, the World Bank, the Permanent Missions of Mexico and New Zealand and the Asia Pacific Forum on Women and Girls with Disabilities (Civil Society).
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