COMMITTEE ON THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES CONSIDERS INITIAL REPORT OF PANAMA
(WorldNews Switzerland)

16 August 2017 The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities today concluded its consideration of the initial report of Panama on its implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Cesar Augusto Gomez Ruiloba, Permanent Representative of Panama to the United Nations Office at Geneva, in his opening remarks, greeted the Committee Experts and introduced the delegation of Panama. Presenting the report of Panama, Maria Castro de Tejeira, Vice-Minister of Education of Panama, said that disability-based discrimination was expressly prohibited by the 2004 reform of the constitution, while in 2007, Panama had created the National Disability Secretariat as an...