Mark Mapemba is a self advocate from Malawi. On June 15 he held a speech on the UN State party meeting about the rights of persons with cognitive disabilities.
Based on the in-depth study by the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention Implementation Support Unit, authored by Sheree Bailey – Assisting Landmine and other ERW Survivors in the Context of Disarmament, Disability and Development – this paper connects the evolving concept of victim assistance with the guidance set out in the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities with its emphasis on inclusion and accessibility, which make services, policies and programmes available to all.
On Friday September 24 2015, on the 70th Assembly of the UN, the 193 member countries of the UN adopted the the 17 SDGs. The disabilitiy movement has reason to be satisfied by the frequent mention of Persons with disabilities througout the goals. We have asked Ambrose Murangira, the Executive Director of the Uganda National Association of the Deaf to give us some of his thoughts about the new SDGs from an Ugandan perspective.