Twitter account of the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Prof. Gerard Quinn. Not managed by or reflecting official UN positions.
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UN SR Disability Rights - G. Quinn retweeted
Join the #UNGA78 side event on ‘Armed Conflict and Disability - From Inclusive Protection to Peacebuilding’ with @SR_Disability.
📅26 October 2023
🕒1:15 PM (EDT)
📍Permanent Mission of Poland @PLinUN & online. Register at: ow.ly/Je2K50Q0j6p
➡️ow.ly/A5Jt50Q0j6o
UN SR Disability Rights - G. Quinn retweeted
Everyone has the right to quality mental health care and support. This means you have the right to feel safe and supported in services.
Take WHO’s free online #QualityRights course to learn more about your rights and standing up for the rights of others bit.ly/3O6FxGV
UN SR Disability Rights - G. Quinn retweeted
Did you miss the launch of the @WHO & @UNHumanRights Guidance on #MentalHealth #HumanRights & Legislation?
You can still listen to the moving speeches of @DrTedros, @volker_turk, @hauwa_ojeifo, and many others.
📷Click here to access the recording:
youtube.com/watch?v=eLzErwWy…
UN SR Disability Rights - G. Quinn retweeted
I'm looking forward to Chairing this session organised by @iiea & a brilliant speaker @SR_Disability. This is the beginning of a 3 part series as part of their inaugural Agenda on Disability. @_IHREC @SchoolofEdTCD @CDLPGalway @NDAIreland @ILMIreland @aheadireland @AnneRabbitte
What are Ireland's obligations under the @UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with #Disabilities?
Join us on Wednesday 19 July at 1pm for a webinar with Prof. Gerard Quinn chaired by @RathVivian
Register: bit.ly/3OdO0ui
UN SR Disability Rights - G. Quinn retweeted
We're going back to the UN! Join us on 16 June as we present a #UnitedNations side panel formed of experts and activists speaking to the need to amplify the needs of the disfigurement/facial difference community within @UN priorities.
ALT Images of three people from the facial difference community. Above in white text is the title “Disfigurement and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.“ Event details – 16 June 2023. Time 1.15 pm- 2.30 pm EST/6.15pm – 7.30 p.m. BST, Zoom link: https://shorturl.at/koHV5 "COSP side event: reaching this underrepresented group". Logos of COSP, International Labour Organization, FEI, About Face and Queen Mary University of London.
UN SR Disability Rights - G. Quinn retweeted
#HRC52: UN #DisabilityRights expert @SR_Disability calls for transformation of disability support & services: Support systems are essential for persons with disabilities to live with dignity, autonomy & independence. Their voices must be included.
ow.ly/rw9P50Ngtj1
UN SR Disability Rights - G. Quinn retweeted
A better world for older persons is a better world for all of us. We need a UN convention for the rights of older persons. Retweet to add your voice.
#AgeWithRights #OEWG13
ALT Picture of an older woman with glasses on. The image reads: “Governments need to act now. Start drafting a UN convention on the rights of older people. #AgeWithRights
UN SR Disability Rights - G. Quinn retweeted
Finland, together with @IDA_CRPD_Forum, @SR_Disability and @usmissiongeneva, organized a #HRC52 side event on the rights of persons with disabilities and armed conflicts. The event brought together participants from member states, international organizations and civil society.
UN SR Disability Rights - G. Quinn retweeted
بدأت هذا الصباح أعمال مؤتمر إقليمي لـ #الإسكوا وشركائها حول الانتقال نحو العيش المستقلّ للأشخاص ذوي الإعاقة، بهدف تحديد السياسات والبرامج التي تدعم البلدان #العربية في ضمان حقّهم باتخاذ قراراتهم الحياتية بأنفسهم.
للمزيد 👈 bit.ly/PRPWDAr
UN SR Disability Rights - G. Quinn retweeted
Have your say! UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of person with disabilities, @SR_Disability wants your input.
Send your contribution for his upcoming report on including persons with disabilities in peacebuilding processes.
Deadline: 05 April 2023
ohchr.org/en/calls-for-input…
UN SR Disability Rights - G. Quinn retweeted
مؤتمر إقليمي تحت عنوان "الأشخاص ذوو الإعاقة: عيشٌ مستقلّ في المجتمع"
🗓️الثلاثاء 14 والأربعاء 15 شباط/فبراير 2023.
📍بيت الأمم المتحدة في بيروت، وافتراضيًا عبر منصة زوم.
اطّلعوا على المزيد من المعلومات وتسجّلوا هنا 👈 bit.ly/PWDConferenceAr
UN SR Disability Rights - G. Quinn retweeted
@SR_Disability: "Innovations at the level of article 12, in terms of universal legal capacity, and innovations in equality theory together point away from legal death or civil death and toward a focus on how to give life to rights rather than on how to take them away." #CRPD 🧵
ALT A screenshot of constitutional court and people on a video conference call, including Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Gerard Quinn.
UN SR Disability Rights - G. Quinn retweeted
UN experts intervene in class action filed in #SouthAfrica against the mining firm Anglo American for lead pollution in #Zambia. Companies must respect their commitments to human rights in business: ohchr.org/en/press-releases/…
UN SR Disability Rights - G. Quinn retweeted
As we mark the halfway point between International Day on Persons with #Disabilities (last Saturday) and Human Rights #Defenders' Day (this Friday), here are 7 key points about Human Rights Defenders with Disabilities. [A thread🧵]
@SR_Disability
UN SR Disability Rights - G. Quinn retweeted
🧵1/ *Seven* key takeaways from new statement by UN experts @MaryLawlorhrds and @SR_Disability about unique challenges for human rights defenders (HRDs) with disabilities:
UN SR Disability Rights - G. Quinn retweeted
States should ensure that older women are counted and visible. UN expert @IE_OlderPersons praises older women’s resilience and urges countries to meet their specific needs in emergency and humanitarian action & recovery planning: ow.ly/U6g750KY4WA
#Rights4OlderPersons
UN SR Disability Rights - G. Quinn retweeted
Deprivation of liberty has a pervasiv impact on #OlderPersons. States must recognize and codify the #HumanRights to personal liberty and security of older persons.
Check out my new report on older persons deprived of liberty:
ohchr.org/en/documents/thema…
UN SR Disability Rights - G. Quinn retweeted
@SR_Disability released a thematic report on report on how safeguarding measures for persons with #disabilities in the context of armed conflict should be aligned with Article 11 of the #CRPD. Read more: bit.ly/3qHUKoJ #DisabilityInclusion
ALT Picture where we can see two hands holding a UN resolution on persons with disabilities.
UN SR Disability Rights - G. Quinn retweeted
From the #WorldWar to #Ukraine, and even before, persons with disabilities were and are always more at risk during armed conflicts. Escalation of armed conflict causes disproportionate misery.
Read this relevant report by @SR_Disability: ohchr.org/en/documents/thema…
UN SR Disability Rights - G. Quinn retweeted
We also saw @UNHumanRights publish a report focused on #AI and the rights of people with disabilities — a major first. @CenDemTech was proud to contribute to this groundbreaking report by @SR_Disability.
ohchr.org/en/calls-for-input…