DESA Forum on Disability and Development

Dignitaries on the dias of the opening of the DESA Forum: Dialogue on the post-2015 Development Framework and Disability” held on 19-20 July, 2013 at the United Nations Headquarters.

Chapal Khasnabis of WHO and Javed Abidi, Chair of DPI at the Forum.

Javed Abidi, Chair of DPI talks about the cost of disability and the connection with poverty.

Shuaib Chalklen, UN Special Rapporteur on Disability and Daniela Bas, Director, Division of Social Policy &amp; Development, DESA.

Henrietta Davis Wray of DPI Jamaica speaking on disaster management in Caribbean.

The panel on disability inclusion in both policy and operational frameworks of disaster risk reduction.

Abia Akram of DPI Pakistan posing questions to the panelists at the DESA Forum.

Davud Rehimli (Right) of DPI Azerbaijan making a passionate presentation at the DESA Forum.

(From left to right) Davud Rehimli, Azerbaijan; Senarath Attanayake, Sri Lanka and Sylvana Lakkis, Lebanon of the DPI delegation at the DESA Forum.