HCD coordinates activity on the rights of persons with disabilities

Amman — The Higher Council for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (HCD) on Tuesday organised an activity titled “Conditions of Persons with Disabilities in Disasters, Crises, and Armed Conflicts/Gaza as Living Example”. 

The event coincides with the world’s celebration of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities and the International Human Rights Day.

HH Prince Mired, lord chamberlain and president of the Higher Council for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (HCD) attended the event in addition to representatives of national, regional, and international institutions, civil society organisations and human rights activists, according to the Jordan News Agency, Petra.

Addressing the gathering, HCD Secretary-General Muhannad Alazzeh denounced Israel’s flagrant transgressions that violate the international humanitarian law and the international human rights law. 

These transgressions also violate Article 11 from the Convention on the Rights of  Person with Disabilities, which states that “States Parties shall take, in accordance with their obligations under international law, including international humanitarian law and international human rights law, all necessary measures to ensure the protection and safety of persons with disabilities in situations of risk, including situations of armed conflict...”.

For her part, United Nations Resident Coordinator in Jordan Sheri Ritsema-Anderson said, “We need laser-like focus on the needs and rights of persons with disabilities — not only as beneficiaries, but as active contributors across social, economic and political life. This means ensuring that persons with disabilities are at every decision-making table, in line with the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and across efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals — from poverty eradication, to health, education and climate action. It means heeding the call of the disability movement: ‘Nothing about us, without us.’”