Press Briefing on Rights of Persons with Disabilities

María Soledad Cisternas Reyes (right), Secretary-General's Special Envoy on Disability and Accessibility, briefs press on the issue of women with disabilities, on sidelines of the twelfth session of the Conference of State Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CoSP12).
Also pictured (left to right): Gertrude Oforiwa Fefoame, Global Advocacy Adviser on Social Inclusion for Sightsavers and Member of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities of the UN; Yetnebersh Nigussie, disability rights activist and lawyer, and 2017 Alternative Nobel Prize Recipient; and Liisa Kauppinen, former President of the World Federation of the Deaf and 2013 Awardee of the United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights.