Building Back Better: toward a disability-inclusive, accessible
and sustainable post COVID-19 World
Disability inclusion is an essential condition to upholding human rights,
sustainable development, and peace and security. It is also central to the
promise of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development to leave no one behind.
The commitment to realizing the rights of persons with disabilities is not only
a matter of justice; it is an investment in a common future.
The global crisis of COVID-19 is deepening pre-existing inequalities,
exposing the extent of exclusion and highlighting that work on disability
inclusion is imperative. People with disabilities—one billion people— are one
of the most excluded groups in our society and are among the hardest hit in
this crisis in terms of fatalities.
Even under normal circumstances, persons with disabilities are less likely
to access health care, education, employment and to participate in the
community. An integrated approach is required to ensure that persons with
disabilities are not left behind.
Disability inclusion will result in a COVID19 response and recovery that
better serves everyone, more fully suppressing the virus, as well as building
back better. It will provide for more agile systems capable of responding to
complex situations, reaching the furthest behind first.
This year, the International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD) falls
on the same week as the Conference of States Parties to the
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 30 Nov.-1 and 3 Dec.
2020 and will be observed
throughout the week in conjunction with the 13th session of the Conference of
States Parties to the CRPD.
History
The annual observance of the International Day of Disabled Persons was
proclaimed in 1992 by United Nations General Assembly
resolution 47/3. It aims to
promote the rights and well-being of persons with disabilities in all spheres
of society and development, and to increase awareness of the situation of
persons with disabilities in every aspect of political, social, economic and
cultural life.
Building on many decades of UN’s work in the field of disability, the Convention on the Rights of Persons
with Disabilities (CRPD),
adopted in 2006, has further advanced the rights and well-being of persons with
disabilities in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development and
other international development frameworks, such as the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, the Charter on Inclusion of Persons with
Disabilities in Humanitarian Action, the New Urban Agenda, and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda on
Financing for Development.
The United Nations Disability Inclusion Strategy
When launching the United Nations Disability Inclusion Strategy in June 2019, the Secretary-General stated that the United Nations
should lead by example and raise the Organization’s standards and performance
on disability inclusion—across all pillars of work, from headquarters to the
field.
The United Nations Disability Inclusion Strategy provides the foundation
for sustainable and transformative progress on disability inclusion through all
pillars of the work of the United Nations. Through the Strategy, the United
Nations system reaffirms that the full and complete realization of the human
rights of all persons with disabilities is an inalienable, integral and
indivisible part of all human rights and fundamental freedoms.
In recognition of this commitment, the Secretary-General submitted in
October 2020, the first comprehensive report on steps taken by the United Nations system to mainstream disability
inclusion and implement the Strategy since its launch.
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