Iraq participates in an international meeting to improve the persons with disabilities reality

INA - BAGHDAD 

Acting Minister of Labor and Social Affairs, Judge Salar Abdul-Sattar, participated on Wednesday, in an international meeting held in New York to discuss ways to improve the rights of the persons with disabilities. 

Abdul-Sattar chaired the meeting, which was titled as Innovation and Technology with the Aim of Advancing the Rights of the persons with disabilities, according to a statement by the ministry received by the Iraqi News Agency - INA.

The meeting took place on the sidelines of the work of the Conference of the States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which was held  At the UN office in New York.

The statement quoted Abdul-Sattar saying, "The Ministry of Labor sought to overcome the obstacles and challenges that stand in the way of persons with disabilities and special needs access to the services provided for them in an easy manner, relying on technology and information."

During the meeting, they discussed how to employ mechanisms of cooperation between governments, civil society organizations, specialists and individuals with disabilities and special needs, in addition to bridging the gender gap, the impact of demographic change, in addition to what regions of the country face from the phenomenon of desertification and its impact on this fragile social segments.