CARTAGENA DE INDIAS, Colombia, CMC—Three international locations of the Caribbean Group (CARICOM) have been named Vice-Chairs of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Convention on Inhabitants and Growth, which ended its fifth session right here on Thursday.
Colombia has taken over as Chair, with Antigua and Barbuda, Guyana, and Suriname as Vice-Chairs.
The opposite vice-chairs are Venezuela, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, and Peru. A press release issued right here stated that the Convention has reaffirmed the essential significance of strengthening public coverage administration.
The delegates stated this goals to make sure the entire train of the rights and improvement of the autonomy and high quality of lifetime of individuals with disabilities. They burdened that these points are inherent to the inhabitants and improvement agenda.
The Convention, attended by greater than 570 delegates, famous that the complete, efficient, speedy, and resourced implementation of the Montevideo Consensus will contribute considerably to the implementation of the Programme of Motion of the Worldwide Convention on Inhabitants and Growth past 2014 and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Growth.
“After two days of intense debate held on the Conference Heart in Cartagena de Indias, these representatives affirmed the essential significance of strengthening public coverage administration aimed toward guaranteeing the complete train of the rights and improvement of the autonomy and high quality of lifetime of individuals with disabilities and burdened that these points are an inherent a part of the inhabitants and improvement agenda,” in keeping with the assertion.
The Deputy Government Secretary of the Fee for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Javier Medina Vásquez, stated that treasured reflections have been imparted in the middle of the assembly, notably in a world and regional situation that’s significantly extra advanced, unsure, and conflictual than it was three many years in the past, marked as properly by polarization and intolerance.
“On this context, the Montevideo Consensus is an instrument for creating a shared imaginative and prescient of the Future, which displays the comprehensiveness posed by the Cairo Programme of Motion in 1994. It’s also probably the most progressive doc on the earth,” Javier Medina stated.
The Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations Inhabitants Fund (UNFPA), Susana Sottoli, indicated that “it’s within the curiosity of all nations to pursue population-centered improvement as a result of it creates the situations for wholesome and empowered people and societies. Amid the current advanced crises and rising polarization, uniting the world to pursue this follow has by no means been a extra pressing precedence”.
Moreover, she urged persevering with this dialogue to maintain the progress made, discover options collectively, and promote inclusive insurance policies and practices that will enable for tackling inequalities, accelerating the actions wanted to make sure that nobody is left behind and dwelling in a world the place all folks, ladies, women, and feminine adolescents, can totally train all their rights.
Within the decision accepted on the finish of the assembly, the acceding international locations resolved to ascertain the open-ended Group of mates of the Chair on the rights of individuals with disabilities and the inhabitants and improvement agenda within the framework of the Regional Convention on Inhabitants and Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean, often known as the Cartagena Group.
This Group goals to look at methods to advance the inclusion of individuals with disabilities within the framework of the Convention, thereby contributing to selling and defending their human rights.
The decision requests that international locations report on the progress made and public coverage motion carried out relating to the inclusion of individuals with disabilities of their shows on nationwide progress on the implementation of the Montevideo Consensus, which will probably be delivered on the Sixth Assembly of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Convention on Inhabitants and Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean, which will probably be held in 2025.
It additionally highlights the intergenerational and intercultural solidarity promoted within the Montevideo Consensus and appears ahead with curiosity to the Pact for the Future and its annexes and the Declaration on Future Generations to be adopted on the Summit of the Future, which will probably be held on September 22-23, 2024, in New York.
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