UN Survey AND Launch of COVID-19 response plan - UN Secretary General highlights perons with disabilities

Hi folks



I received this realy useful information below from United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), and with there permission am passing it on. 



Also, there is a survey I received from  Stefanie Dannenmann-Di Palma  on behalf of Carlos Kaiser, Director ONG Inclusiva, a request to fill in a survey in order to collect information on the experience of persons with disabilities in the current Covid-19 pandemic.



Spanish link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeESduS_RXj_mGtK3d-BmJRiN9x9AcVYqk7EEVOwq_Zo4zdBA/viewform?usp=sf_link



English link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdkGeju2VALJZ0iq_IXqnEj9ckKfEF7Eld0LPH9fnhrBS8bOg/viewform?usp=sf_link



All the best...   Lisa
Subject: 25 March 2020: Launch of COVID-19 response plan - UN Secretary General highlights persons with disabilities



 

Dear all,

 

The Secretary-General
 has launched yesterday the COVID-19 https://www.unocha.org/sites/unocha/files/Global-Humanitarian-Response-Plan-COVID-19.pdf today, which explicitly includes persons with disabilities. In his https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/sg/statement/2020-03-25/secretary-generals-remarks-launch-of-global-humanitarian-response-plan-for-covid-19 highlighted the situation of persons with disabilities in relation to the response, as well as planning for the future.

 

Please note that on 19
 March 2020, the UN has issues as statement specifically highlighting actions related to Persons with Disabilities: https://www.un.org/development/desa/disabilities/covid-19.html

 

Furthermore WHO has issues
 a statement on COVID-19 and persons with disabilities: https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/03/1059762

 

Other resources of interest
 to you might be:

 

http://edf-feph.org/newsroom/news/open-letter-leaders-eu-and-eu-countries-covid-19-disability-inclusive-response?fbclid=IwAR3kHZSjxTwe-euZ7xlplnAGKclQGkH9nbnFn83OnmmWQsAeJQb2iS_Sy8g, European Disability Forum, 13 March 2020

 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewpulrang/2020/03/08/5-things-to-know-about-coronavirus-and-people-with-disabilities/#466298441d21, Forbes, 8 March 2020

 

Link Global Humanitarian
 Response Plan: https://www.unocha.org/sites/unocha/files/Global-Humanitarian-Response-Plan-COVID-19.pdf

 

25 March 2019 Secretary General remarks: https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/sg/statement/2020-03-25/secretary-generals-remarks-launch-of-global-humanitarian-response-plan-for-covid-19

 

Best regards,

Stefanie

 

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