Eric Rosenthal, DRI Founder & Executive Director, spoke at the recent webinar, Making the SDGs Work for and with Persons with Disabilities: A UN DESA Global Policy Dialogue on Tuesday, December 17th. 

View the event recording here: https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k15/k15pdgmjgt 

UN DESA and leading thinkers on the rights of persons with disabilities held a conversation about the “UN Disability and Development Report 2024”, which addresses, at the global level, the nexus between disability and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). 

Speakers discussed the most recent global analysis based on an unprecedented amount of data, legislation and policies from all countries to understand the socioeconomic circumstances of persons with disabilities worldwide, the progress made so far and the challenges and barriers they still face in their daily lives, including the exacerbated impacts due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Speakers included:

• Eric Rosenthal, Founder and Executive Director, Disability Rights International
• Ola Abualghaib, Manager, Technical Secretariat, UN Partnership on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNPRPD)
• Alexandre Cote, Social Policy Specialist, UNICEF
• Nora Groce, Leonard Cheshire Chair of Disability and Inclusive Development, Institute of Epidemiology and Health, University College London
• Maria de Freitas Martinho, Social Affairs Officer, Division for Inclusive Social Development, UN DESA
• Jose Maria Viera, Interim Executive Director, IDA - International Disability Alliance

The event was made possible by the United Nations Peace and Development Trust Fund. It included closed-captioning in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish and International Sign Translation. 

View the event recording here: https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k15/k15pdgmjgt