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6:30 am
COSP16 side-event: Adopting an intersectional lens to advance health equity for persons with disabilities and older people in the new political declaration on Universal Health Coverage
IDDC is hosting an official in-person COSP side event with UN Women and the Governments of Luxembourg and Bangladesh, plus OPDs from Kenya and India – focusing on “Adopting an intersectional lens to advance health equity for persons with disabilities and older people in the new political declaration on Universal Health Coverage”. The event will …
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9:45 am
COSP16 side-event: Meaningful Engagement of OPDs: Inclusive processes for reaching under-represented groups of persons with disabilities in programming
While there has been a significant improvement in the inclusion of organisations of persons with disabilities (OPDs) in both disability-specific and mainstream programming in recent years, this increase in meaningful engagement has not benefited the disability movement equally. Underrepresented groups, including OPDs representing people with intellectual disabilities, people with psychosocial disabilities, and people with deafblindness, …
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