COMMITTEE ON THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES EXAMINES REPORT OF HAITI
(WorldNews Switzerland)

16 February 2018 The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities today concluded the consideration via video conference of the initial report of Haiti on its implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Presenting the report in Geneva, Pierre André Dunbar, Permanent Representative of Haiti to the United Nations Office at Geneva, said that a series of devastating natural disasters that had hit the country in the past decade badly hurt its society and economy, and increased the level of vulnerability and the number of persons with disabilities. But, the disasters also contributed to a transformation in social attitudes vis-à-vis disability, which was no...