Este documento expone los avances logrados por el Gobierno haitiano, en adecuar su marco normativo para hacer efectivo el pleno ejercicio de los derechos de las personas con discapacidad, tras el terremoto ocurrido en 2010. La información documental obtenida se desprende en gran medida del primer Informe presentado por el Gobierno de Haití al Comité de Derechos de las Personas con discapacidad (CRPD) en 2014, que fue elaborado en base a las consultas al Comité Interministerial de los Derechos de las Personas, organizaciones de y para personas con discapacidad, así como el Informe Alternativo s…
This paper will contend that the post-2015 development agenda presents a major opportunity for Caribbean countries to reverse decades of lagging economic performance and make the transition to balanced, holistic, and people-centred growth and development.
The MDGs, while valuable in promoting gains in poverty reduction, health, education, nutrition, and maternal well-being were not tailored to the growth and development needs of the region. This can now be changed by a post-2015 development agenda which goes beyond improving the welfare of citizens by meeting basic needs and enhancing access t…
“There is no question that the Caribbean is shouldering an unsustainable debt burden which compromises the capacity of the economies for sustained growth and restricts the options available to governments to introduce important social and welfare programmes” the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, said via video conference in opening the 17th meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee (CDCC) on 26 June, during which Ministers and high-level Government representatives from the…
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