The inclusion of workers with disabilities is vital to achieving decent work and implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (SDGs), according to the conclusions of a seminar organised by the ILO’s Bureau for Workers’ Activities (ACTRAV) from 11 to 15 March 2019 in, Sao Paolo (Brasil).
People with disabilities are the world’s largest minority, representing some 15 percent of the world’s population. However, people with disabilities are frequently victims of discriminations and their rights are often denied.
“Decent work, especially organising inclusive institutions following the ILO conventions 87 and 98, is a virtuous system to remove barriers for all people with disabilities, which is aligned with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development where no one is left behind and the nothing about us without us- of the UN Convention on the rights of the Persons with disabilities”, said Carmen Benitez, ACTRAV Regional Specialist for the Americas.
During the seminar, trade union participants shared best practices and defined strategies to be more effective in the implementation of the UN SDGs.
Participants adopted a guidance document to create a platform for the unions to include workers with disabilities on the basis of the decent work agenda through tripartism, in order to achieve the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals.
Original source: ILO
Published on 20 March 2019
