Disability-inclusive policies 2016, para. 5
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- Inclusive development is essential to ensure that all marginalized and excluded groups participate effectively in development processes. Many people around the world are excluded from the benefits of and prevented from contributing to development because of their age, sex, sexual orientation, race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, poverty, disability or other status. The consequences of such exclusion are deepening inequalities across and within countries: around 80 per cent of the world's population has only 6 per cent of the world's wealth, while the richest 1 per cent is likely to have more than 50 per cent in 2016. As Amartya Sen wrote, an important goal of development should be to ensure that everyone enjoys their rights to achieve the capacity and opportunity to be a full member of society. Development should be broad-based enough to benefit all people, as a means both to enhance people's capabilities and choices and to build overall more inclusive, equitable and sustainable societies that promote and protect people's rights.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2016
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Reference
- SR Disability, Report to the UNGA (2016), A/71/314, para. 5.
- Paragraph number
- 5
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