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National Authorities Meet in El Salvador in the Framework of the OAS to Advance the Rights of People with Disabilities
By OAS
May 5, 2011 - 8:23:27 PM
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In
the framework of the Organization of American States (OAS), national
authorities met in San Salvador, El Salvador, on May 4 and 5 to
approve the methodology and parameters for measuring progress in the
fulfillment of the Inter-American Convention on the Elimination of
All Forms of Discrimination against People with
Disabilities.
The First Lady of El Salvador and the country’s
Secretary for Social Inclusion, Vanda Pignato, as Chair of the
Committee for the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against
People with Disabilities (CEDDIS), welcomed the delegates of the
states party to the Convention. She was in the presence of
Ambassador Ronalth Ochaeta, OAS representative in El Salvador; the
representative of Peru and First Vice Chair of the CEDDIS, Luis
Miguel Del Águila; the representative of Argentina and Second Vice
Chair of the CEDDIS, Pablo Rosales; and the Deputy Minister for
Development Cooperation of El Salvador, Jaime Miranda.
Upon
addressing the session, the authorities agreed to highlight the
importance of strengthening this forum through the kind of support
that ensures sustainability towards the fulfillment of the
objectives set by the state parties, as well as the need to rely on
the inter-American system and the United Nations system to make
progress on the national goals for the full realization of the
rights and inclusion of people with disabilities. In their remarks,
they reiterated the call for the perspective of people with
disabilities to be considered in all public undertakings, for which
it is necessary to work jointly in all national and international
agencies.
Some 90 million people in the Americas face
disabilities. To confront these challenges, the inter-American
system relies on the Inter-American Convention on the Elimination of
All Forms of Discrimination against People with Disabilities,
adopted in 1999, in force since 2001, and made up of 18 state
parties. The Convention is the first regional or universal
instrument charged with providing the conceptual framework on
matters of disabilities, and its objective is the elimination and
prevention of discrimination against people with disabilities, and
their integration into society.
For
more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.
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