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Sent: Wednesday, 4 September 2013 4:00 AM
To: Frank Hall-Bentick
Subject: DPI's SIDE EVENT AT HLMDD ON 23rd SEPTEMBER
DPI's SIDE EVENT ON THE DAY OF THE HIGH LEVEL MEETING ON DISABILITY AND
DEVELOPMENT, ON 23rd SEPTEMBER, AT THE UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS
Title: Eradicating Extreme Poverty: Addressing the disability disconnect
Time: 11 am to 12.30 pm; 23rd September, 2013
Venue: United Nations Headquarters (tbd)
Organizer: Disabled People's International (DPI)
Co-sponsors: UNDESA, The Hans Foundation, Global Call to Action Against
Poverty (GCAP) and the Permanent Mission of India (tbc)
Background: The post-2015 development agenda is focused on eradicating
extreme poverty. The High Level Panel on Post-2015 in its report has
underlined the universality of development as a human rights and the
importance of 'leaving no one behind'. This can only be achieved if we focus
our attention on marginalised sections such as people with disabilities.
800 million of the world's 1 billion people with disabilities live in the
countries of the global South. People with disabilities also comprise 20
percent of the world's poorest. People with disabilities are not only more
vulnerable to poverty but their poverty is further compounded by other
inequalities.
The side-event will underscore how development is closely linked with social
justice and how without addressing disability induced inequalities, it will
be difficult to 'leave no one behind'.
The panel discussion will focus on the importance and ways of breaking down
barriers and creating enabling conditions for the participation of people
with disabilities in development, so as to address the roots of poverty and
build a real sustainable equitable development for all in the next phase of
international development agenda beyond 2015.
For more information, please contact: Mr. Javed Abidi, Global Chair, DPI at
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