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Nicholas Herd is a campaigner for L Arche Canada, part of international non-profit organization working towards the inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities.He is participating in the UN Conference of States Parties to theConvention on the Rights of P
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ersons with Disabilitieswhich is taking place at UN Headquarters in New York. I have lived with discrimination for part of my life. When I was young, and gr
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owing up, I was bullied because of my disability. But now I can use that voice, from the child that I was, to be heard, louder and louder. I can shout it on the top of a building or off a mountain, bigger than the UN so that persons with disabilities are included at the table.That s how big our voice should be around the world.That s the rea
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son why we re here in the United Nations. We want to be included.This is my first time at the UN. I felt a bit emotional yesterday because I couldn t believe that I m here doing this.Inclusion and the OscarsWhat inspires me in my work is an Nzdk Helping others thrive
Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Pramila Patten, and her counterpart on Children and Armed Conflict, Virginia Gamba, lauded the Cour Militaire Op茅rationnelle of North Kivu for the conviction and sentencing of Ntabo Ntaberi Sheka 鈥?part of the Nduma Defenc
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Congo armed group NDC-Sheka 鈥?on charges that included rape, sexual slavery and the recruitment of children.Ms. Gamba called the verdict an important victory for those who seek justice for grave violations against children in the DRC and elsewhere. It is a formidable example showing that no individual, no matter how powerful, is immune from being held accountable for those violations , she added. Appalling crimesHe and co-conspirators, including S茅raphin Nzitonda Habimana, also k
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nown as Lionceau, of the so-called Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda FDLR , were tried for mass crimes committed between 2010 and 2017.Among the violations were attacks in 2010 against civilians