IDDC

The Conflict and Emergencies Task Group works to raise awareness among the main emergency relief providers and donor agencies about the interests and concerns of persons with disabilities. We seek to ensure that disability concerns are included in the preparation, design and implementation of emergency and humanitarian activities across the world, and that disabled people, disabled peoples organisations, and disability NGOs are consulted in the process.

Because exclusion on the grounds of disability is a human rights issue, we call for:

• The full implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

• Donors and agencies to take all necessary measures to include disabled people in the planning and implementation of all humanitarian interventions. This should include assessing the implications for disabled people of any planned action, including legislation, policies and programmes.

• Disability to be mainstreamed into all emergency humanitarian and development programmes, including mitigation of disasters and that protection measures in the immediate aftermath of such crisis are inclusive of, and accessible to, disabled people.

• Formal public recognition that the UN MDGs are unreachable without addressing the issue of conflict, emergencies or disability.