The“ASEAN Enabling Masterplan 2025: Mainstreaming the Rights of Persons with Disabilities” meeting was held at Hotel Amara in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday morning.

At the meeting, ASEAN Affairs Department Director-General U Hau Khan Sum said: “The 63rd United Nations General Assembly has adopted the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) on 13 December 2006 to uphold and protect the dignity and rights of persons with disabilities. The international development frameworks inclusive of 2020-2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are being carried out to accelerate the advancements of rights of persons with disabilities in conformity with the UN convention. The ASEAN Human Rights Declaration was adopted in 2012 and its member-governments’ commitments were embodied for the respect for and promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms inclusive of persons with disabilities.

He added that Myanmar ratified the CRPD on 7 December 2011, and promulgated the Law on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2015) and Rules on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2017). The implementation of the ASEAN Enabling Master Plan benefits equality and high quality of life for about 4.6 million persons with disabilities in Myanmar. All stakeholders should draw a new work plan for 2020-2025 and execute the priorities to benefit the entire society inclusive of persons with disabilities in order to ensure successful Masterplan 2025,” he urged.

Next, Myanmar Independent Living Initiative (MILI) Executive Director Daw Yuya Thu explained the objectives of the meeting.

The meeting was attended by officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Investment and Foreign Economic Relations, the Ministry of Labour, Immigration, and Population, the Union Election Commission, persons-in-charge of the Myanmar Independent Living Initiative (MILI), and the Myanmar Federation of Persons with Disabilities, representatives of the non-government organizations, the civil society organizations, the community-based organizations, and the persons with disabilities organizations.

MNA
(Translated by Aungthu Ya)
Photo- MNA
Ref; The Global New Light of Myanmar