ADDC Bulletin: November 2022 edition

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ADDC Bulletin: November 2022 edition 

ADDC NEWS 

• IDPD Toolkit released 
• ADDC Strategic Plan 2023-2026 
• Update on ADDC Executive Committee 

IN THE NEWS 

• CBM Australia’s IDPD campaign: My Start Counts – Let’s ensure children with disabilities count! 
• COP27: Governments still have much to do to achieve disability inclusion in climate action 
• CEDAW Committee adopts General recommendation No 39 on the rights of Indigenous Women and Girls: 30 references to disability and to indigenous women and girls with disabilities 
• Unity is strength: Strategizing the consolidation of the movement of persons with psychosocial disabilities in Africa 

NEW RESOURCES 

• Missing in Climate Action: Stories of persons with disabilities from the Global South 
• Background Briefing Report: Leave No One Behind: People with Disabilities and Older People in Climate-Related Disasters 
• Global Disability Summit 2022 Report 

Webinar recordings 

• Webinar Snapshot on gender-based violence in Cameroon   
• Closing the Justice Gap for women with intellectual and psychosocial disabilities in Asia and the Pacific (20 October 2022) 
• COP27 side event: From exclusion to leadership: People with Disabilities Develop an Agenda for Inclusive Climate Action (10 November 2022) 
• COP27 side event: Disability rights – disability inclusion in climate action (14 November 2022) 
• COP27 side event: Localized Solutions to Reduce Climate Induced Loss & Damage for the Most Vulnerable 

YOUR INPUT IS NEEDED 

• Call for bids: International Council of Education of People with Visual Impairment (ICEVI) World Conference 2024 

UPCOMING EVENTS 

• Launch of WHO Training in Assistive Products 
• Gender-based violence and forcibly displaced women with disabilities 
• WHO Global Report on Health Equity for Persons with Disabilities 
• The Year End Consultation with OPDs and refugees with disabilities  
• Asia-Pacific Commemoration of International Day of Persons with Disabilities 
• Release of UNICEF global database and latest global and regional estimates on children in detention  
• Release of UNICEF global database and latest global and regional estimates on children in residential care 
• 7th Pacific Regional Conference on Disability – “Nothing without us: Deepening partnership for an inclusive recovery for the Blue Pacific Continent in a post COVID world” 
• 5th Asia-Pacific Community-based Inclusive Development Congress 2023 

OPPORTUNITIES 

• Director of Program Impact 
• HRDAP 2023: Apply now for ISHR’s hybrid training for human rights defenders 
• “Stepping Into Program” for students with disability