The “Association of
Arab Universities” announced holding the third training session for preparing
Arab cadres specialized in the area of implementing the “Convention on the
Rights of Persons with Disabilities”, (Poverty and Disability) in “Hammamet”
city in “Tunisia”, on (19th and 20th)
of January, 2014.
The session aims at
identifying the “Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities” and its
optional protocol, which was approved on (13th) of December, 2006 at
the “United Nations” in “New york”, and which was signed on the (30th)
of March, 2007 by (82) signatures, whereas the optional protocol was signed by
(44) signatures, and one country certified the agreement. This is considered to
be the highest number of signatures in the history of any agreement for the “United
Nations”, and it is the first comprehensive convention for human rights in the
twenty- first century, and the first agreement for human rights whose signature
doors were open to regional integration organizations, and it constitutes an “ideal
shift” in attitudes and approaches towards disabled people.
The agreement is
meant to be an instrument for human rights with a clear perspective regarding
social development, and it fosters a broad classification for disabled people,
and it reaffirms the importance of the need for all persons with disabilities
of all kinds to have all human rights and fundamental freedoms. The agreement
also clarifies and describes how all kinds of rights apply to disabled persons.
The session will be
more beneficial and fruitful if the participants are knowledgeable about the
regulations, laws, and national plans in their countries, which are related to
poverty, disability, and health care. The first session of the course will
discuss the subject of reducing extreme poverty which is one of the millennium’s
goals that obliges the international
community to eliminate extreme
poverty and hunger through achieving goals such as; reducing the rate of people
earning less than a dollar and a quarter a day in half, in the period between
(1990) and (2015). And providing productive labor and decent employment for
all, including women and youth, in addition to halving the proportion of people
who suffer from hunger between 1990 and 2015.
During the session, there
will be groups for practice including training activities for what is discussed
in the sessions of the course, which identify poverty, disables persons, “Convention
on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities”, and how to eliminate poverty. This
course should come up with a list of recommendations and national plans and
projects that aim at preparing Arab cadres specialized in the implementation of
“Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities”, based on the common
principle that disabled people in the Arab world in general are in need for support
and to facilitate reaching them.
14/01/2014