Steelcase announced it is joining the Valuable 500, a global business collective comprised of 500 international organizations committed to putting disability inclusion on their board agenda. The Valuable 500 is the world’s biggest CEO collective for disability inclusion.
Atos today announces that its Global Accessibility and Digital Inclusion Policy, Governance & Program has been selected for a Zero Project 2022 Award . The Zero Project is an initiative of the Austrian Essl Foundation focused on the rights of people with disabilities globally.
The Helen Suzman Foundation ("HSF") has submitted its comments to the South African Law Reform Commission in response to the issue paper on the Domestication of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).
asking us, pleading with us. now, this is a president excuse me, prime minister netanyahu has been rather quiet in any type of criticism of president obama, even when president obama was giving him a stiffarm through the first four years of the administration. we just hesitated to do anything to distance himself from the president, but this is how serious this is, that he has gone out and publicly criticized the president and the secretary for even engaging in this folly. and for the secretary then to stand up and say, well, we re going to consider our allies is just folly. and it has to be. i mean, i can t think of any other reason in that the president is looking to divert attention away and to get a foreign policy win, but this win would have devastating consequences for our country going forward. and we re going to t israel s deputy defense minister coming up and get his take. meanwhile, another international topic. the u.n. convention on the rights of persons with disabilities
decorated veterans john mccain and john kerry, who have been rivals in the senate on everything short of which way is up and which way is down, these men have been bipartisan leaders together on this treaty. the u.n. convention on the rights of persons with disabilities has united the seemingly ununitable. the vote was scheduled today. ratifying a treaty requires 66 votes. former senator bob dole was there at the senate for the occasion. in his wheelchair. the decorated wounded combat veteran, the former republican presidential nominee on the floor of the senate. he was there with his wife. so senators had to walk past him in his wheelchair on the way in to vote. and the republicans in the senate voted no. the treaty got 61 votes, but you need a supermajority to ratify a