![]() They will chronicle and document the personal struggles that led them to devote the rest of their lives to ensure that people with disabilities are no longer deprived of internationally recognized human rights.Ī World Enabled is part of new social change media project that uses worldwide digital mass communications as creative tools to challenge, examine, illuminate, and inspire political and social change and look at disability as a critical global human rights issue. In Cuba Disabled, an award-winning documentary, is the first of a documentary trilogy that examines the lives of people with disabilities in the developing world, their integration and participation in society, and their opportunities for self-fulfillment.īroken Balkans looks at life with disabilities in the post-communist states of Yugoslavia.Ī World Enabled will feature the dramatic and compelling stories, testimonies, and oral histories of a representative group of UN Convention delegates from Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Middle East and North America. Invitation - International Day of Disabled Persons 2004 ( MS Word ) Please allow 45 minutes before the beginning of the event for security formalities. These persons should carry a copy of this invitation and enter through the visitor’s entrance, located on 1st Avenue and 45th Street, and then proceed to a registration table in the visitor’s lobby to register and get their passes. ![]() Persons who do not hold a UN grounds pass please RSVP by Friday 26 November 2004 to e-mail: Fax: 21, providing the following information: name, organizational affiliation and address. Special thanks to the Victor Pineda Foundation for its contribution. Organized by the Division for Social Policy and Development, Department of Economic and Social Affairs with the support of the Department of Public Information. The event aims to highlight the role of media in raising awareness about the rights and potentials of persons with disabilities as well as the importance of the participation of persons with disabilities in all aspects of life. The theme for observance of the Day in 2004 is “Nothing About Us Without Us” aims to provide an opportunity to focus on the active involvement and participation of persons with disabilities in the planning of strategies and policies that affect their lives. The observance of the Day aims to promote an understanding of disability issues and mobilize support for the dignity, rights and well-being of persons with disabilities. The annual observance of the International Day of Disabled Persons was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in its resolution 47/3 of 14 October 1992. Mayor's Office for Persons with Disabilities, New York City Permanent Mission of Burkina Faso to the United Nations ![]() Permanent Mission of Ecuador, Chair of the Ad Hoc Committee Ambassador Luis Gallegos, Permanent Representative Vice-Chair of the Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral InternationalĬonvention on Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities Permanent Mission of the Republic of the Philippines to the United Nations Observance at the United Nations Headquarters, New York.Ĭonference Room 4, UN Headquarters, New Yorkĭivision for Social Policy and Development, UN/DESA In which all voices are heard and persons with disabilities can helpĪn opportunity to foster changes in attitudes towards persons with disabilitiesĪnd eliminate barriers to their full participation in all aspects ofĬhronicle - International Day of Disabled Persons, 2004 Of how the principle of full participation can be put into practiceĪnd how it can contribute to the development of truly inclusive societies, Rights of persons with disabilities has proved to be an excellent example With disabilities in the ongoing elaboration of a convention on the Participation and equalization of opportunities for, by and with persons Throughout the years as part of the global movement to achieve the full ![]() Participation, and it has been used by Disabled Peoples Organizations The motto “Nothing About Us Without Us” relies on this principle of In the planning of strategies and policies that affect their lives. 2004 will focus on the active involvement of persons with disabilities
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