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COVID-19: Bachelet urges States to take extra steps to include people with disabilities

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30 Apr 2020

Arabic | Chinese | Russian | Spanish GENEVA (30 April 2020) – Targeted measures are needed to address the disproportionate risks faced by persons with disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic...

OHCHR Guidelines on COVID-19 and the rights of persons with disabilities

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Tools and resources

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29 Apr 2020

These guidelines describe shortly the preliminary impact assessment made in 2020 and provide concrete areas of attention to deliver on the rights of persons with disabilities and prevent further...

The right to life of persons with disabilities and older persons infected by Covid-19

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27 Apr 2020

Chinese | French | Spanish Humanity is facing the Covid-19 pandemic, whose greatest challenge is to protect the lives of all people. In this context, certain groups of persons are mostly exposed to...

Analytical study on the promotion and protection of the rights of persons with disabilities in the context of climate change - Report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

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Thematic reports

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22 Apr 2020

Hungary: UN experts urge end to restrictions on persons with disabilities

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Press releases

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16 Apr 2020

Hungarian version GENEVA (16 April 2020) Hungary’s laws, policies and practices which often result in persons with disabilities being placed under guardianship, and in many cases being...

Joint Statement: Persons with Disabilities and COVID-19 by the Chair of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, on behalf of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Special Envoy of the United Nations Secretary-General on Disability and Accessibility

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Statements

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01 Apr 2020

Arabic | Chinese | French | Russian | Spanish 1. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) is an international human rights treaty, the framework of which...