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📅 1 Oct, 2pm BST: members, join us and Inclusion Canada for a webinar on medical assistance in dying (MAID), why it puts people with intellectual disabilities at risk, and how we can respond together.
Details 👇
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Families give most of the care and support people with intellectual disabilities get.
70% of families in our survey get no meaningful support in return.
Read the report 👉 buff.ly/CwqEOPp
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🌍 In August, 20 members from 8 countries joined our Listen Include Respect Summer School.
Four sessions on how to include self-advocates in their own organisations, from good support to inclusive meetings.
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People with intellectual disabilities give care and support too.
In 15 countries, self-advocates told us how they look after parents, children and each other.
Care systems still treat them only as people who receive care and support.
Read it 👉 buff.ly/kMe85I7
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Our new report "Don't Call Me Resilient" is available to download.
Families and people with intellectual disabilities in 42 countries told us how care and support systems are failing them.
Read more 👉 buff.ly/YphvEpV
ALT Cover for Inclusion International's 2026 report "Don't Call Me Resilient" showing a caregiver gently holding a child, illustrating how care and support systems are failing people with intellectual disabilities and their families.
ALT Finding 1: families provide most care for people with intellectual disabilities but face overwhelming pressure — 70% of family carers get no meaningful support; a photo below shows several family caregivers listening in a community meeting.
ALT Finding 2: People with intellectual disabilities provide care and support for family and each other and call for more accessible services — self-advocates in 15 countries reported giving care.
ALT Finding 3: Inclusive care and support can only happen in the community — people with intellectual disabilities need care where they live and 40% of families get no support; a masked worker sits at a table meeting a mother and child in a home doorway.
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What does it take to include children with disabilities in education during an emergency?
We have worked with @IDA_CRPD_Forum and members in Colombia and Niger, funded by @EduCannotWait, to find out.
We're introducing 3 new learning modules built from those lessons 🌍
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Janet Charchuk at #COSP19:
"The papers are too long. The meetings move too fast. And nobody asks if we understood. So we are in the room, but we cannot really be in the conversation. That is not participation, that is decoration."
Accessibility makes participation possible. #ListenIncludeRespect
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Learn more about Listen Include Respect here: buff.ly/0TSHByR
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Great to see so many members of the Inclusion International network together at #COSP19.
Bringing self-advocates, families, and organisations together strengthens our movement and our work for inclusion and rights worldwide.
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🔴 Live from Roundtable 3 at #COSP19. 🎙️
The conversation right now: how do we make political and public life truly accessible, so people with disabilities can participate, lead, and speak up for our rights?
This is why we're here. #CRPD #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs
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Inclusion International retweeted
📍TCI at #COSP19
TCI is participating in the side event “Upholding the Rights of Marginalized Groups of Persons with Disabilities, Including Women with Disabilities, Underrepresented Groups, and Intersectional Identities.”
This important discussion will explore the human rights challenges faced by marginalized disability communities, including persons with psychosocial disabilities, women with disabilities, and people with intersecting identities. The event will highlight strategies to address discrimination, violence, exclusion, and barriers to participation while advancing the implementation of the CRPD and the UN Guidelines on Deinstitutionalization.
🎥 Watch live: webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1l/k1…
#COSP19 #DisabilityRights #Intersectionality #WomenWithDisabilities #PsychosocialDisability #CRPD #Deinstitutionalization #DisabilityInclusion
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Inclusion International retweeted
Day 3 at the UN Continues 🇺🇳
"In my country, the worst abuse does not always hide in the shadows. Sometimes it wears a suit and calls itself policy."
Speaking today at the United Nations, Inclusion Canada CEO Krista Carr delivered a passionate message about the human rights challenges still facing people with intellectual disabilities in Canada.
"In Canada, if you are in despair and you do not have a disability, the state fights to keep you alive. If you have a disability, it now offers to help you die. Same pain. Two answers."
More than one person with a disability accesses MAiD under Track 2 every day. The UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) has called on Canada to repeal these provisions, recognizing the discriminatory impact they have on persons with disabilities.
As we mark the 20th anniversary of the #CRPD, we must do more than celebrate progress. We must confront the policies, systems, and practices that continue to deny people with disabilities equality, dignity, and belonging.
We will continue to speak truth to power, challenge discrimination wherever it exists, and amplify the voices of people with disabilities and their families—at home, at the United Nations, and around the world.
Every person has a need and inherent right to be valued, respected and empowered to reach their full potential.
See video link to Krista's full remarks at the UN 👇
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#COSP19 #DisabilityRights
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Inclusion International retweeted
20 years after its adoption, the promise of CRPD endures: a world where persons with disabilities can fully exercise their rights & participate in every aspect of life.
Join #COSP19 to turn two decades of commitment into action. 🌐desapublications.un.org/un-d…
#CRPD20 @UNDESA
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Inclusion International retweeted
On the eve of the 🌍's largest annual @UN gathering on #disability rights, 🇵🇱 Amb. @KSzczerski joined an event hosted by @InclusionIntl to champion a simple message: persons with disabilities are not just beneficiaries of humanitarian action — they are leaders who help shape it.
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Inclusion International retweeted
Inclusion Canada, in partnership with @IDA_CRPD_Forum, is now hosting a side event entitled: After the Committee Speaks - Turning Concluding Observations into Domestic Action at the Convention's 20th Anniversary.
The side event is examining the formal mechanisms that State Parties use to receive, process, and act on concluding observations, discuss the role of Article 33 monitoring framework, discuss case studies from other jurisdictions, and identify strategies to push implementation forward.
The panel is being moderated by Inclusion Canada President, Moira Wilson and consists of panel members: Chris Sutton, Accessibility Commissioner, Canada Human Rights Commission, Hon. Carla Qualtrough, former federal minister, Fatma Wangare, Inclusion Africa, Stephanie Gotlib, @InclusionIntl , and @KristaCarrNB , CEO Inclusion Canada.
#CSFCRPD #CRPD20
ALT Image of the panelists, seated in a circular configuration
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Inclusion International retweeted
Care and support systems are essential to ensuring the autonomy, inclusion, and rights of persons with disabilities. At #COSP19, we shared evidence, challenges, and recommendations to advance more inclusive, resilient, and rights-based care and support policies.
#DisabilityRights #CareSystems
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Inclusion International retweeted
🇺🇳 #COSP19 is underway at #UNHQ!
From 9-11 June, #CRPD20 States Parties are meeting to advance global inclusion, accessibility & equal rights. #EveryoneIncluded
📃 Read: bit.ly/un-cosp19
📺 Tune in: webtv.un.org
♿️ Access: un.org/dgacm/en/content/acce…
ALT UN Secretary-General delivers remarks during the opening session of COSP19 in the General Assembly Hall.
ALT A woman delivers remarks during the opening session of COSP19 in the General Assembly Hall.
ALT Meeting participants attend COSP19 in the General Assembly Hall.
ALT A nameplate showing CRPD in the General Assembly Hall.
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Inclusion International retweeted
🙋♀️Esta tarde han seguido las dinámicas grupales, dentro del encuentro de Plena Internacional, en las que han participado las 200 personas de cuatro continentes asistentes.
🍀¿Cómo globalizar los derechos de las personas con discapacidad intelectual y de sus familias? Esta es una de las preguntas a las que se ha tratado de dar respuesta.
ALT Entrevista de Simón marco a la activista libanesa Mia Farah.
ALT La delegación de Plena inclusión Extremadura, en el fotocall del evento.
ALT Imagen de uno de los grupos de trabajo sobre derechos de las personas con discapacidad intelectual y del desarrollo en el mundo.
ALT Dinámica gráfica en torno a la personalización de las personas con discapacidad intelectual.
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Today at #COSP19 🎤
Self-advocates are speaking... and leading.
"Nothing About Us Without Us: Moving from Participation to Representation"
📅 11:30am–12:45pm EST | UN HQ
@DownSyndromeSA #CRPD20 #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs #Disability
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Day 3 of #COSP19 is here. 🙌 We're co-hosting 2 side events:
🔹 "Nothing About Us Without Us" Self-advocates moving from participation to representation. Sue Swenson is speaking.
🔹 Care & Support systems: Jordan and Zambia.
Plus Roundtable 3 on political participation.
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