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“In the year 2000, Marlies van der Kroft, Cristin de Vries and I came together to discuss the recent developments in the disability movement in the Netherlands. The three of us agreed, there was huge untapped potential and therefore we established the Dutch Coalition on Disability and Development. Disability inclusion was our core goal from…
Find more information on the initiative in Dutch.
The Netherlands puts its signature under the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. A small stroke for a pen on paper, yet a giant leap for humankind and their equal rights. NL ratifies the UN CRPD in 2016.
DCDD has joined the ‘Adopt an SDG’ campaign, where MPs can choose to adopt one or more SDGs and commit to them. In that context, Lieke Scheewe together with Oxfam Novib handed over SDG-2 in accessible format to member of parliament Jan Klink (VVD).
DCDD launched the report “An Untapped Potential”. It examines the steps that various stakeholders have taken to implement UNCRPD article 32, sinc the UNCRPD was ratified by the Netherlands in 2016. More information: here.
For the next 5 years DCDD will be part of the We Are Able consortium led by ZOA, which is one of the Power of Voices partnerships with the Ministry. More information: here.