Disability Association of Tavana (DAT) participated in the 34th session of United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva, the DAT Public Relations and International Affairs Department announced
Disability Association of
Tavana (DAT) participated in the 34th session of United Nations Human Rights
Council (UNHRC) in Geneva, the DAT Public Relations and International Affairs
Department announced. Held from February 27th up to March 24th, 2017, the
Council ratified 41 resolutions and presidential statements on a wide spectrum
of issues.
Due to its advisory status at United Nations
Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), DAT representatives participated in the
UNHRC meeting in Geneva in order to get more acquainted with various aspects of
this event and also to introduce and register DAT in the UN-associated agencies
and departments. In addition, DAT endeavored to further enhance its
interactions with various UN organs and the international entities, negotiate
with peer organizations and associations, and talk with key personalities in
the sidelines of this event. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, UN General
Assembly Chief Peter Thomson, and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Prince
Zeid bin Ra’ad were among the key personalities participating in this
conference.
As its usual annual procedure, the Organization
for Defending Victims of Violence (ODVV) in Iran held a meeting with a couple
of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) that had obtained advisory status from
the UN and made necessary coordination for participating in the United Nations
Human Rights Council in Geneva. DAT along with 14 other NGOs were ultimately
able to attend this event in the European headquarter of the UN in Geneva.
DAT read out its statement in the 4th day of
meetings of the Council. “Human Rights” was UNHRC’s main theme for this year’s
conference. However, this year’s conference was concurrent with the submission
of reports by member states of the Convention of the Rights of Persons with
Disabilities. Therefore, the second week of the UNHRC’s conference was mainly
concentrated on meetings and sessions which were dealing with issues related to
the people with physical disabilities. Since issues related to the people with
physical disabilities are amongst the most important human rights issues,
different governmental departments from UNHRC member states that are dealing
with such issues had dispatched their representatives to this event.
DAT was the only NGO associated with disabled
people that was actively participating in the Council’s meeting.
DAT participated in one the meetings of the
UNHRC in Geneva entitled “From Disability to Proper Job” and a video clip that
was elaborating on potentials and capabilities of disabled people was shown to
the audience.
Seyed Mohammad Mousavi, DAT founder, delivered a
speech in a panel on disabled people and said: “Influenced by the prevalent
capitalistic outlook in the world, the majority of state infrastructures in our
planet consider human beings as mere instruments in order to further increase
their profits.” “Now, that I have access to capital, I prefer to introduce a
new pattern of capitalism to the global community which is a divine pattern and
based on celestial tenets,” Mousavi added. Elsewhere in his speech, the DAT
founder pointed out: “Today, I am managing my company and factory based on this
divine and celestial pattern. That is to say, the capital belongs to the
almighty God and I am His lawyer on this capital.”
“Today, we are no longer able to settle global
social problems, especially those problems that are affecting the lives of
people with physical disabilities, through mere charities and donations.
Rather, we are required to encourage the states to shift their outlooks towards
disabled people and pay due attention their rights of citizenship,” he
concluded.
Four DAT representatives participated in the
United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva and delineated their
association’s policies and objectives to the audience and managed to establish
effective contacts with the representatives of participating international and
regional organizations, as well as, peers and national entities from other
countries.
By: Masoumeh Amedi
irantavana disability news
Tuesday 2017/5/9
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