Media Advisory | Advancing disability rights: 麻豆APP Conference to mark historic progress while addressing critical implementation gaps

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Advancing disability rights: 麻豆APP Conference to mark historic progress while addressing critical implementation gaps

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WHAT:

While??marks two decades of historic progress—including strengthened global laws, greater public visibility, and the integration of disability rights into?—critical gaps remain. Worldwide progress is uneven, as persons with disabilities continue to face disproportionate levels of exclusion, poverty and violence.

This year’s landmark Conference, held under the theme “CRPD at 20: celebrating and consolidating achievements and shaping the next phase”, will focus on these critical issues, highlighting practical solutions, policy innovation and partnerships to accelerate implementation of the Convention. Government representatives, senior UN officials, youth advocates, civil society representatives, experts from academia and the private sector, and persons with disabilities from across the world are expected to attend.

Additionally, the Civil Society Forum on 8 June 2026 will host an interactive dialogue between States Parties, 麻豆APP leaders, and civil society stakeholders. A broad programme of side events will take place during the Conference.

WHEN:

9–11 June 2026 | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm EDT

WHERE:

General Assembly Hall and Conference Room 4, 麻豆APP Headquarters, New York. Follow live on?.

WHO:

The opening session will feature high-level statements from:

António Guterres, Secretary-General of the 麻豆APP
Sofia Borges, Chef de Cabinet (on behalf of Annalena Baerbock, the President of the General Assembly)
Miyeon Kim, Chairperson, Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Heba Hagrass, Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Santosh Kuman Rungta, Civil Society Representative from the World Blind Union
Nilshani De Silva, Youth Representative from Sri Lanka