Bridging the Gap II "Protection of the human rights of migrants, asylum seekers, refugees and forcibly displaced persons with disabilities"
GLOBAL SUMMIT ON DISABILITY 2019 BUENOS AIRES
On occasion of the Global disability Summit 2019, celebrated in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from 6 to 8 June 2019, Bridging the Gap organised the side event ‘Migration and disability’ to highlighted the situation of one of the most vulnerable groups in society. The event was organised together with International Disability Alliance (IDA), the Latin American Network of Non-Governmental Organizations of Persons With Disabilities and their Families (RIADIS), the Mexican Coalition for Persons with Disabilities (COAMEX), and Human Right Watch.
As a result of the session, a declaration on the protection of the human rights of persons with disabilities in conditions of migration, asylum, refuge and forced displacement, was drafted in order to demonstrate their concerns and express their solidarity with this group. This document also urge the Governments to guarantee measures to protect and safeguard the human rights of migrants with disabilities such as the generation of a joint strategy with International Organizations for the collection of disaggregated data and statistical information on migrants, asylees and refugees, from an age, gender and disability perspective that makes it possible to visualize the inter-relations between different groups of the population.
The document has been translated also in Spanish, French and Arabic:
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