United Nations Photo - Recording of Video Message on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

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A close-up of Salah Aldin Abdurrahman, a 27-year-old blind man and member of the Sudanese Association for Disabled People in El Fasher, North Darfur. The organization assists persons with disabilities across Darfur.

Players from the Single Leg Amputee Sports Club Sierra Leone (SLASC) lift their crutches for a cheer before heading to the field for a match, in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Founded in 2001 following Sierra Leone’s ten-year civil conflict, the Club offers trauma recovery for war amputees.

Treaties waiting to be signed, of the new United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, by representatives of Member States, which aims to secure the rights of some 650 million persons with disabilities around the world. More than 75 countries participated in the signing ceremony, the most for the opening of any treaty. The event, held in the UN General Assembly Hall, at UN Headquarters in New York, was also attended by over 350 representatives of disability organizations from around the world, who were instrumental in the negotiation of the treaty.

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Headline Secretary-General António Guterres Records Video Message on Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Caption Description Secretary-General António Guterres (left) speaks on camera with Jillian Mercado, a civil society representative to the eleventh session of the Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The two recorded a video message in advance of the upcoming Conference (to be convened 12 June) and discussed the issue of women and girls with disabilities.

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Production Date 06/05/2018 3:21:37 PM

City/Location New York

Country United States of America

Credit UN Photo/Evan Schneider

File size 3.93 MB