Golam Faruk Khandakar Prince MP delivered his statement for Bangladesh at the UN on the Right of the Person with Disabilities

UsaNewsOnline.Com, New York, 02 December : The rights and fundamental freedoms of people with disabilities featured as the priority policies of the present government led by the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Mr. Golam Faruk Khandakar Prince Hon’ble Member of Parliament and Member Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said this, in his statement, made at a High Level Panel Meeting to Commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Convention of the rights of the Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), held on 2 December 2016, at the UN Headquarters in New York. President Genreral Assembly and Secretary General of the United Nations made statement at the opening session of this High Level Meeting. Chair of the Committee, on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Ms. Maria Soledad Cisternas Reyes, Chair of the Committee on the Rights of the Persons with Disabilities moderated the session. The MP, in his statement, told that the general principles and obligations of the CRPD are similar to the general and fundamental principles and directives of the National Constitution of Bangladesh which was envisioned by our Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Bangladesh ratified CRPD as a 8th country. He further added the various exemplary initiatives taken by the Awami League led government under Prime Minister Shiekh Hasina, such as construction of Autism Resource Centres and hostels with full accessibilities for both male and female persons with disabilities. The Government is implementing Integrated Disability Service Center since 2009 covering all districts. One-stop mobile therapy service has been introduced since December 2015 to deliver door-to-door therapy services of the peripheral Persons with Disabilities. The Government had approved a comprehensive project to set up a separate Disablities Complex and Disabilities Sports Complex. He also added that Bangladesh is known as one of the leading countries in promoting the rights of persons living with Autism. Ms. Saima Hossain, daughter of Hon’ble Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Advisor to the Prime Minister of Bangladesh on Autism has been playing pioneering role in this area. Finally, he urged urge all countries for the inclusion of persons with disabilities in all development efforts for poverty elimination and for the equalization of opportunities.