Events and meetings: Inclusion of persons with disabilities
December 2009
3 December 2009, ILO International Day of Persons with Disabilities This year's theme for the International Day of Persons with Disabilities - "Making the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Inclusive: Empowerment of persons with disabilities and their communities around the world" - supports the message of challenging exclusion. ...
November 2009
12 November 2009, Governing Body Room, 14.00-15.30 Panel Discussion on People with Disabilities in Times of Economic Crisis
ILO's Employment Sector's Disability Team organized a panel presentation followed by a discussion. The aim of the event was to examine how the current economic downturn is affecting women and men with disabilities and to advocate that they be included in measures to tackle the crisis.