(VOVworld) – Vietnam hosted a conference on boosting the UN Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) toward enhancing the role and involvement of people with disabilities in the ASEAN community.
A person with disability is seeking job at the Job Bazaar for people with disability (photo: vietnamplus) |
The conference was jointly held by the Ministry of Labor, Invalids, and Social Affairs, the Asia-Pacific Development Centre on Disability (APCD), and UNICEF. The delegates discussed the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and international activities, ASEAN countries’ responses to implement the CRPD’s recommendations and their achievements, and challenges, and other countries’ experiences toward the ratification of the convention, as well as Vietnam’s roadmap to verifying the CRPD. The Asia-Pacific Development Centre on Disability and the Ministry of Labor, Invalids, and Social Affairs signed a Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation.
Addressing the meeting, Deputy Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, Nguyen Trong Dam, said that Vietnam has around 6.7 million people with disabilities, equivalent to 7.8 percent of the national population. The country has launched various activities to strengthen their integration in social activities and spared no efforts toward ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities as soon as possible.