International Day of Persons with Disabilities

The theme chosen to mark the International Day of Persons with Disabilities 2024 is '' Amplifying the leadership of persons with disabilities for an inclusive and sustainable future ''. The leadership of persons with disabilities is epitomised by the global disability rights movement’s slogan “ Nothing About Us Without Us ”. It connotes the basic requirements of participation, representation and inclusion and calls for persons with disabilities to actively shape the conditions of their lives. One of the priorities of the global disability agenda is to advance the agency and leadership of persons with disabilities . In the past decades, persons with disabilities and organisations of persons with disabilities (OPDs) have already championed for the changes in their communities, and have been leading many of the community-led initiatives not only to advance their own rights, and wellbeing but also promoting inclusive development for instance enabling universal access to ...

The Accessibility Centre at United Nations Headquarters , through its services, supports the inclusion and greater participation of persons with disabilities in the meetings taking place on United Nations premises. The Accessibility Centre is located in close proximity to the meeting rooms and equipped with state-of-the-art assistive information and communication technology supporting audio, visual as well as Audio, Visual and physical impairments . For more information on the Accessibility Centre and its services, please visit the Centre's website at https://www.un.org/dgacm/en/content/accessibility .