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Message for International Day of Persons with Disabilities
Senator Floyd Morris, PhD CARICOM Special Rapporteur on Disability Theme: Leadership and Participation of Persons with Disabilities Toward an Inclusive, Accessible and Sustainable Post-COVID-19 World The COVID-19 pandemic has caused devastating consequences for individuals and countries across the world. It has impacted in a significant way, more than others, persons with disabilities. The crisis has exacerbated old problems that have…
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Message by Dr Floyd Morris, CARICOM Special Rapporteur on Disability to mark International Day of Persons with Disabilities
Once again, the world is recognizing the International Day for Persons with Disabilities as designated by the United Nations. It is a time that the world is required to celebrate the achievements of persons with disabilities, whilst at the same time, recognizing the major challenges that the over 1 billion citizens who are living with diverse types of disabilities are…
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COVID-19CARICOM Special Rapporteur on Disability Calls for Special Considerations for Persons with Disabilities During and After COVID Pandemic in the Caribbean
The CARICOM Special Rapporteur on Disability, Senator Dr. Floyd Morris is calling upon regional governments and members of the private sector, to give special consideration to persons with disabilities during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. According to Senator Dr. Floyd Morris: “Regional governments and private sector companies have been forced to make significant adjustments to the services they offer to…
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COVID-19THINGS TO KNOW AND DO WHEN DEALING WITH A PERSON WITH DISABILITY WHO HAS CONTRACTED THE CORONAVIRUS
Persons with disabilities are regarded as one of the most vulnerable groups in any society. Their vulnerability is due to stigma and discrimination and ensuing social barriers which have restricted their inclusion and participation in governance, cultural and social issues and denied or limit access to services and programmes on an equal basis with other members of society in which…
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Regional Training Centre being established for young people with disabilities
Plans for a Regional Training Centre for young people with disabilities moved a step forward today with the signing of an agreement by the implementing parties. CARICOM Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, Guyana’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Hon. Carl Greenidge, and Cuba’s Ambassador to Guyana H.E. Julio Cesar Gonsalez Marchante signed a Tripartite Cooperation and Technical Assistance Agreement at a Ceremony…
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CARICOM strengthens commitment to persons with disabilities in the Caribbean
The Thirty-fourth Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government which was held in July 2013 in Trinidad and Tobago, agreed to set up National Committees on Reparations, to establish the moral, ethical and legal case for the payment of reparations by the former colonial European countries, to the nations and people of the Caribbean Community, for native genocide, the…
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CARICOM High Level Ministerial Meeting on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities in the Caribbean Building a Disability-Inclusive Society For All Declaration of Pétion Ville 6 December 2013
We, the representatives of the Fifteen States of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Having met in Pétion Ville on 5 and 6 December 2013 for the High Level Ministerial Meeting on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; Recalling the decision of the Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community, meeting in July 2013, that priority attention be given…
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