Report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human ...-highlight medbox">Rights | The present study focuses on inclusive education as a means to realize the universal right to education, including for persons with disabilities. It analyses the relevant provisions of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, highlights good practices and discusses challenges and strategies for the establishment of inclusive education systems.
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From Exclusion to Inclusion
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While the ratification of the Convention and its Optional Protocol has proceeded rapidly, knowledge on how to implement and monitor them has not ke...pt pace. Conscious of this challenge, my Office has developed this Training Guide on the Convention and its Optional Protocol. It is complemented by eight training modules, designed to inform and empower those who are involved in ratifying, implementing and monitoring the two instruments. While the Training Guide is mainly targeted at facilitators of training courses on the Convention and its Optional Protocol, it acknowledges that each and every one of us has a role to play. I recommend wide dissemination of the training package, and its use by all those who want to embark upon the essential journey towards greater awareness and effective implementation of the rights of persons with disabilities and, ultimately, the building of an inclusive society for all.
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Understanding The UN Convention On The Rights Of Persons ...box">With Disabilities
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While the COVID-19 pandemic threatens all members of society, persons with disabilities are disp...roportionately impacted due to attitudinal, environmental and institutional barriers that are reproduced in the COVID-19 response.
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The adoption and the entry into force of the Convention on ...edbox">the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol challenge such attitudes and mark a profound shift in existing approaches towards disability.
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Save the Children in Albania is establishing and strengthening structures and mechanisms which monitor and advocate for children’s rights, promote ways to protect children from all forms ...ss="attribute-to-highlight medbox">of exploitation and violence and also empower and support children and their representatives to meaningfully advocate for implementation of their rights and influence decisions that bring about changes in their future lives.
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Global Education Review, 3(3).4-27
In the present study, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human ...attribute-to-highlight medbox">Rights sets forth the standards on equality and non discrimination of persons with disabilities under article 5 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. It aims at providing guidance for implementation of article 5 of the Convention, identifying good practices and making recommendations.
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This paper aims to understand the agency that caregivers who participated in a CBR empowerment component programme exercised, in order to promote the righ...ts of their children with disabilities to a basic education.
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