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January 07, 2008
UN approves RP initiative on disabled-Philippines
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Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 04:55am (Mla time) 01/07/2008
MANILA, Philippines -- The United Nations has approved a Philippine-led initiative that would include some 650 million persons with disabilities worldwide in the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDG) which aim to wipe out poverty.
In a report to the Department of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Hilario Davide Jr., Philippine permanent representative to the UN in New York, lauded the Filipino diplomats who successfully pushed for the adoption of the resolution, “Implementation of the World Program of Action Concerning Disabled Persons: Realizing the Millennium Development Goals for Persons with Disabilities” in the 62nd UN General Assembly.
Davide said 103 member-states cosponsored the resolution aimed at including the perspective of persons with disabilities in the MDGs, a set of eight targets that binds countries to exert more effort toward addressing the problems of inadequate incomes, widespread hunger, gender inequality, environmental deterioration and lack of education, health care and clean water.
“The adoption of the resolution underscores the importance the Philippines places on the issue of disability in the United Nations,” Davide said in his report.
“It is worth noting that we have also recently became a signatory to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities with Secretary (Alberto) Romulo signing in behalf of the Philippines,” he said.
Davide said the resolution hoped to benefit people with disabilities who comprise 10 percent of the global population.
Cynthia D. Balana
http://globalnation.inquirer.net/news/news/view_article.php?article_id=110792
Posted by jicafriends at January 7, 2008 03:05 PM