ADDC Bulletin: September 2020 edition

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ADDC News

• Online consultation: A systematic approach to GEDSI

IN THE NEWS

• COVID-19 Disability Rights Monitor calls on governments to ensure essential supplies for persons with disabilities
• Highlights from the 23rd Session of the UN CRPD Committee
• GLAD Network on Disability and COVID-19

COVID-19 RESOURCES

• WBU Report: COVID-19, Amplifying Voices: Our Lives, Our Say
• Resource document: Using the Washington Group Tools to Assess the Impact of COVID-19 on Persons with Disability
• Website: Accessible COVID-19 statistics tracker

Webinar recordings

• WBU webinar: COVID-19, Amplifying Voices: Our Lives, Our Say

Other new resources

• Joint blog from IDA Chair and GEM Report Director
• Report: Disability and climate change
• Report: Mobilising Women’s Leadership: Solutions for Protection and Recovery in a Time of COVID-19 and TC Harold
• Resource document: Planning and conducting a ‘Country Mission’ – towards national mobilization of persons with psychosocial disabilities
• Special Rapporteur of Health’s final report
• Journal article: Discrimination against people with disabilities in accessing microfinance
• Resource compendium: Easy to use Toolkit by TorqAid consultancy

YOUR INPUT IS NEEDED

• Nominations open: National Awards for Disability Leadership
• Call for feedback: RDI Network’s new learning platform
• Call for abstracts: Pacific Islands Health Research Symposium (25-27 November 2020)
• Webinar: Introduction to the Global & Regional Processes and Mechanisms and the SDGs

UPCOMING EVENTS

• Asia Pacific Regional Internet Governance Forum (APrIGF): Subtheme on “Digital Inclusion, Gender Equality and Diversity”
• World Data Forum side-event: Persons with disabilities and COVID-19 data collection and disaggregation efforts
• Oceania Connect 2020 Regional Conference

OPPORTUNITIES

• Digital Learning Adviser
• Disaster Risk Reduction and Emergency Response Fellow: Asia Region