Preface

There are 650 million persons with disabilities in Asia and the Pacific. Policymakers have a responsibility to ensure that persons with disabilities enjoy all human rights and freedoms on an equal basis with others. With 160 ratifications since the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in 2006, the CRPD is the most rapidly approved United Nations human rights convention in history — a feat that demonstrates the global commitment to disability. In Asia and the Pacific, efforts to implement the rights of persons with disabilities have been strengthened by the Incheon Strategy to “Make the Right Real” for Persons with Disabilities in Asia and the Pacific — the world’s first set of regionally agreed disability-inclusive development goals.

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