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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon,Keynote Address at the Opening Ceremony of the 2nd UNIDO Forum on Inclusive and Sustainable Industrial Development
5 May 2014 – Forum 2014 session: Inclusive Societies. OECD Headquarters, Paris, France.
Moderator: Monique Villa, CEO, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Panelists:
-Xavier de Souza Briggs, Vice President of Economic Opportunity and Assets, Ford Foundation
-Angel GurrĂa, Secretary-General, OECD
For more information, visit: For more information, visit: www.oecd.org/Forum
Photo: OECD/Andrew Wheeler
Towards an Inclusive Peace is a three-year project (2017-2019) part of the Caux Forum that looks beyond security driven approaches to violent extremism. By taking a peacebuilding perspective based on conflict transformation practices, Towards an Inclusive Peace creates a space for the discussion of a human-centered approach to address this phenomenon.
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Photo: Paula Mariane
During Pride month in June and throughout the year, we celebrate the contributions of the LGBTQI+ community and honor their efforts to advance equality for all people in this country. As a part of the 2022 Utah Pride Festival in Salt Lake City, we participated in the parade with the USDA Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest and National Park Service.
The Bureau of Land Management is dedicated to fostering an inclusive and equitable environment for its employees, as well as visitors on public lands. Every person deserves the freedom to live with dignity, safety and opportunity, no matter who they are, whom they love, or how they identify. Together, we can build an inclusive outdoors that is safe and welcoming for all identities and abilities.
Photos by Javonne Goodman, BLM Utah - Public Affairs Specialist
During Pride month in June and throughout the year, we celebrate the contributions of the LGBTQI+ community and honor their efforts to advance equality for all people in this country. As a part of the 2022 Utah Pride Festival in Salt Lake City, we participated in the parade with the USDA Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest and National Park Service.
The Bureau of Land Management is dedicated to fostering an inclusive and equitable environment for its employees, as well as visitors on public lands. Every person deserves the freedom to live with dignity, safety and opportunity, no matter who they are, whom they love, or how they identify. Together, we can build an inclusive outdoors that is safe and welcoming for all identities and abilities.
Photos by Javonne Goodman, BLM Utah - Public Affairs Specialist
Participants at the World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa 2017. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Jakob Polacsek
Select from photos in this album to create a slide show to convince local businesses that serving people with disabilities is profitable.
For the latest research on what works in Inclusive Tourism point them to, "Best Practice in Accessible Tourism: Inclusion, Disability, Ageing Population and Tourism"
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One of the most frequent questions asked by advocates and industry alike is “what is the value of the inclusive tourism market?”. There are surprisingly few studies that have examined this question. Below is an updated extract from an article that presents a summary economic estimate studies (Darcy & Dickson, 2009).
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Participants at the World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa 2017. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Jakob Polacsek
During Pride month in June and throughout the year, we celebrate the contributions of the LGBTQI+ community and honor their efforts to advance equality for all people in this country. As a part of the 2022 Utah Pride Festival in Salt Lake City, we participated in the parade with the USDA Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest and National Park Service.
The Bureau of Land Management is dedicated to fostering an inclusive and equitable environment for its employees, as well as visitors on public lands. Every person deserves the freedom to live with dignity, safety and opportunity, no matter who they are, whom they love, or how they identify. Together, we can build an inclusive outdoors that is safe and welcoming for all identities and abilities.
Photos by Javonne Goodman, BLM Utah - Public Affairs Specialist
Participants at the World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa 2017. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Jakob Polacsek
Photo by David Kotsibie. Event featuring Jael Ealey Richardson, Salimah Kassam, Ivan Coyote and Lisa Charleyboy. Unique voices from the Wordfest lineup filter through the “white noise” surrounding the charged concept of inclusivity. The panel tackles hot button issues such as: “What does diversity mean anyway today?” and “Who gets to decide what stories receive mainstream attention?” to “What voices are (still) absent or underrepresented in the book world?” This salon-style discussion is organized by the Festival’s volunteer White Noise Talks committee.
William Maloney, Chief Economist, Equitable Growth, Finance and Institutions capture during a session: Promoting Inclusivity at the World Economic Forum on ASEAN in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, May 11, 2017
Copyright by World Economic Forum / Sikarin Thanachaiary
During Pride month in June and throughout the year, we celebrate the contributions of the LGBTQI+ community and honor their efforts to advance equality for all people in this country. As a part of the 2022 Utah Pride Festival in Salt Lake City, we participated in the parade with the USDA Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest and National Park Service.
The Bureau of Land Management is dedicated to fostering an inclusive and equitable environment for its employees, as well as visitors on public lands. Every person deserves the freedom to live with dignity, safety and opportunity, no matter who they are, whom they love, or how they identify. Together, we can build an inclusive outdoors that is safe and welcoming for all identities and abilities.
Photos by Javonne Goodman, BLM Utah - Public Affairs Specialist
First Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) National Conference. 29.10.2011
*Delegates and Speakers*
Disability rights activists and advocates from all over the UK met in Islington for the first Disabled People Against Cuts national conference. The keynote speech of the day was given by John McDonnell MP. Disablled TV presenter Mik Scarlet, Paul Brandon (Right to Work Campaign), John MaArdle (Black Triangle), Andrew Lee (People First), Gerry Harte (Darlington Association on Disability), Simone Aspis (ALLFIE - Alliance for Inclusive Education) and Melanie Close (Disability Equality North West) also joined DPAC co-founders Debbie Jolly, Linda Burnip and Eleanor Lisney, presenting speeches throughout the conference.
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Participants at the World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa 2017. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Jakob Polacsek
Focus on Eldercare's response to COVID-19
At the purpose when the noxious impacts of COVID-19 showed first in Wuhan, the entire city and therefore the entire of Hubei Province ground to a halt. The lockdown of Wuhan brought remarkable torment and threatening difficulties for several individual occupants therein first focus. Presently, COVID-19 represents those equivalent difficulties for individuals and social welfare frameworks all-inclusive. Especially, it tests our aggregate endeavors to believe one another, particularly the foremost defenseless among us.
As a populace, individuals quite 70 will generally have more fragile insusceptible frameworks and progressively fundamental conditions that obstruct their capacity to battle the infection. They're likewise sure to dwell on bunch day to day environments, nearby people. Floods of COVID-19 passings in nursing homes — first within the Seattle territory, at that time on the brink of Sacramento and now during the country — have underscored this inauspicious reality. Up until now, Californians quite 65 have made up, at any rate, a fourth of the state's affirmed instances of COVID-19.
Be that because it may, guidelines, especially for helping living offices, are unsafely failing to satisfy the expectations in protecting California's older folks from this infection. Luck, Gov. Gavin Newsom's plan on Aging activity, as of now ongoing, presents an opportunity to forcefully address this peril and find how to secure an enormous number of more seasoned Americans.
Helped living focuses are an aid to the Eldercare business and therefore the enormous corporate proprietors that currently command the market. Simultaneously, in any case, an absence of guideline and oversight of staffing levels and capabilities — particularly prerequisites for on-location doctors and much prepared clinical experts — has left the business defenseless against misuse and unfortunate results. One glaring issue that has got to be tended to: helped living focuses are directed by the state Department of Social Services rather than the Department of Public Health.
In any case, it helped to measure maybe a piece of social welfare and clinical consideration conveyance framework, not only a direction for living. Propelled a year ago, Newsom's plan on Aging has framed a warning advisory group, is holding open gatherings and within the fall is planned to offer a 10-year plan which will address issues from lodging and vagrancy to crisis readiness to manhandle and disrespect. The venture has made a "Value Committee" to urge a contribution from a progressively differing gathering of residents and associations, including agents of the crippled network, Native Americans and other ethnic minorities.
Considering the spreading coronavirus general wellbeing emerging, it's basic that the representative's plan on Aging takes on an expansive and genuine open arrangement job. We weren't bothered with elevated level clichés for tending to the wants of the old. We'd like solid arrangements, solid guidelines with implementation teeth and a guarantee to continued oversight.
The Age of COVID-19
Older people who get themselves out of the blue alone without authority over their conditions are at specific hazards for an assortment of serious, even hazardous, physical and psychological well-being conditions, including a subjective decrease. Limitations on the opportunity of development ought to be proportionate and not founded solely on age.
COVID-19, as different irresistible melodies, represents a higher hazard to populaces that live in nearness. This hazard is especially intense in nursing or matured consideration offices, where the infection can spread quickly and has just brought about numerous passings. About 1.5 million older people individuals live in the nursing homes in the US, barring helped living offices and different settings making nearness.
Twenty-three individuals kicked the bucket in a flare-up at an office in Washington State in February and March, and the US Centers for Disease Control detailed 400 additional cases in offices as of April 1. On March 31, wellbeing experts in the Grand East district of France detailed 570 passings of older people in nursing homes.
Older people often end up in nursing homes due to governments' inability to offer adequate social types of assistance for individuals to live freely in the network, approaches that have put millions at included danger of getting the infection as a result of their organization. Governments ought to guarantee the progression of network-based administrations with the goal that individuals don't wind up in organizations without different alternatives.
Expound now on the roles played via care laborers in continuing the lives of the old during that emergency, and who, however dreadful themselves, by and by remain day in and outing inside the bounds of their wards to offer fundamental consideration.
Care supervisor Chang, the woman in charge of the consideration laborers among whom I led my hands-on work, coordinated the change of her ward into a self-sufficient fixed of a unit of care. The passage to her floor is carefully monitored; just fundamental conveyances are permitted, for instance, nourishment and clothing. Since nobody can enter or leave the structure, the flask for the older was transformed into a dozing region for care laborers. Despite the very fact that a lot of consideration laborers have their circle of relatives to require care of, they put that piece of their life under the control of others. Care specialist Lin, whose spouse died at the start of the pandemic, did not have the chance to completely grieve his passing due to incessant understaffing at Sunlight. She came back to figure following the burial service, despite realizing that she not, at now expected to figure at Sunlight to hide her significant other's clinical costs. Lin's arrival says much regarding her promise to her calling, to her colleagues, and to the old she had come to understand so well. My examination with care laborers recommends that it's an enthusiastic association and an awareness of other's expectations that propels them to remain the end of the day in care work. This is often borne out immediately.
Carefully add China is often seen as being grimy and unfortunate, thanks to an excellent extension to its nearby hook up with the realistic consideration required by slight, skilled bodies. Chinese consideration laborers are for the foremost part provincial to urban transients or urban specialists laid far away from previous state-claimed processing plants. In any case, direct consideration is intricate. In any case, its unpredictability goes unrecognized, or maybe disregarded by institutional powers that organize benefits and generalize the old as bodies to chip away at, to the disregard of their social-passionate necessities. As is valid with Sunlight, things which might typically undermine the keenness of care laborers, for instance, the absence of institutional acknowledgment for his or her enthusiastic work, are required to be postponed. Care specialists are currently centered around a shared objective: ensuring the gift assistance of the older. COVID-19 propels care laborers to consider what kind of care is required and the way to offer that care. It fills in as a channel through which the elemental beliefs of care are observed. Care is about common human weakness and our intrinsic association. Care laborers at Sunlight, in their aggregate every minute of everyday endeavors to secure the older, typify this ethic through their consideration. May the respectful regard, they hold of the older in their consideration redound on them and everyone consideration laborers overall who are fighting this pandemic on the bleeding edge!
Like the consideration laborers at Sunlight, the laborers in numerous nations are regarded human life so that we cannot be embarrassed to return clean with the leading edge about ourselves. Salute the spearheading staff who salutes our purposeful endeavors to handle the pandemic in numerous settings around the globe, within the daylight, yet additionally to ensure that veterans are appropriately treated, took care of and washed.
We all hope and pray that the coronavirus will soon be controlled and subdued. And that when the crisis is behind us, that we continue the important work of protecting the elderly and other vulnerable segments of our citizenry.
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During Pride month in June and throughout the year, we celebrate the contributions of the LGBTQI+ community and honor their efforts to advance equality for all people in this country. As a part of the 2022 Utah Pride Festival in Salt Lake City, we participated in the parade with the USDA Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest and National Park Service.
The Bureau of Land Management is dedicated to fostering an inclusive and equitable environment for its employees, as well as visitors on public lands. Every person deserves the freedom to live with dignity, safety and opportunity, no matter who they are, whom they love, or how they identify. Together, we can build an inclusive outdoors that is safe and welcoming for all identities and abilities.
Photos by Javonne Goodman, BLM Utah - Public Affairs Specialist
In equatorial Recife, hiding from the direct sun is not only a physical necessity, but also a cultural one. While boulevards and squares are bleached into uninhabitable redundancy, where there is shadow in the city, there is conversation, life and opportunity. Usable - and therefore shaded - public spaces are entirely lacking in the blighted favela community of Pilar, a shantytown which nestles between monumental factories in the historic port area of the city. Yet it is in deprived areas such as this that the social benefits of public space can have their strongest and most diverse impact. During a recent collaborative workshop in Brazil, our group focused on this forgotten aspect of favela development, proposing a simple method for flexible public space provision at the mouth of Pilar. Our intention was to stimulate more activity at the socially exclusive edges of the favela, giving a place for people to rest, collect and mix. For less than £50 and with four hours unskilled labour, the canopy was erected. No site survey was made nor were any plans drawn. Merely through a process of negotiation with and between neighbours, were fixing points found on roofs, water tanks, shop fronts, telegraph poles, and a form for the canopy materialised. All materials used were cheap, locally made, and widely available. During the process of construction, we were quickly joined by local people offering help, ladders, stools, and even music to aid the work. As the amount of shadow increased, so did the passers by who chose to walk under it. Groups of children paused there to talk with friends on the way back from school and factory workers ate their lunch under its shelter. We were expecting to see the canopy disappear overnight, but through the unanticipated levels of interaction, and inhabitation, a powerful sense of local ownership over the space emerged which has now enabled the project’s continuation. Several days after construction, a fixing which had failed during the night was found miraculously repaired the next morning. We responded to this by providing residents with a set of tools and spare parts to enable maintenance and adaptation of the structure as local needs change. This has already occurred twice within a month. Still, sipping caiperinhas on Bom Jesus, 500 metres out of the favela the luminescent membrane hijacks the horizon. It acts as a landmark, giving the hidden favela a much needed identity within and connectivity to a city which would rather ignore it. The hope is that such spaces can be empowering to local people; they engender notions of pride, ownership, and provide the facility for assembly, a right which all communities surely need. Due to the positive attention we received in Brazil, and demand from the residents of Favela Do Pilar, we are now developing the project’s next stage: A kit of parts which can be sent by mail to Pilar, enabling neighbours to negotiate and cooperatively produce spaces of their own. We currently are searching for partner organisations in Brazil or elsewhere who might be able to help us make this happen. Inclusive edge is an ongoing project which was begun in April 2006. With less than £50... 12 x 1.5 metres Lycra (yellow) 20 steel eyelets 150 metres 1.5mm steel cable 1 pack cable ties 34 steel cable grips 6mm spanner - gift from cable shop 1 ladder - borrowed from favela 2 stools - borrowed from favela + 4 hours unskilled labour
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During Pride month in June and throughout the year, we celebrate the contributions of the LGBTQI+ community and honor their efforts to advance equality for all people in this country. As a part of the 2022 Utah Pride Festival in Salt Lake City, we participated in the parade with the USDA Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest and National Park Service.
The Bureau of Land Management is dedicated to fostering an inclusive and equitable environment for its employees, as well as visitors on public lands. Every person deserves the freedom to live with dignity, safety and opportunity, no matter who they are, whom they love, or how they identify. Together, we can build an inclusive outdoors that is safe and welcoming for all identities and abilities.
Photos by Javonne Goodman, BLM Utah - Public Affairs Specialist
During Pride month in June and throughout the year, we celebrate the contributions of the LGBTQI+ community and honor their efforts to advance equality for all people in this country. As a part of the 2022 Utah Pride Festival in Salt Lake City, we participated in the parade with the USDA Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest and National Park Service.
The Bureau of Land Management is dedicated to fostering an inclusive and equitable environment for its employees, as well as visitors on public lands. Every person deserves the freedom to live with dignity, safety and opportunity, no matter who they are, whom they love, or how they identify. Together, we can build an inclusive outdoors that is safe and welcoming for all identities and abilities.
Photos by Javonne Goodman, BLM Utah - Public Affairs Specialist
Lino Cattaruzzi, Managing Director, Middle East and North Africa, Google, United Arab Emirates at the World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa 2017. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Jakob Polacsek
During Pride month in June and throughout the year, we celebrate the contributions of the LGBTQI+ community and honor their efforts to advance equality for all people in this country. As a part of the 2022 Utah Pride Festival in Salt Lake City, we participated in the parade with the USDA Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest and National Park Service.
The Bureau of Land Management is dedicated to fostering an inclusive and equitable environment for its employees, as well as visitors on public lands. Every person deserves the freedom to live with dignity, safety and opportunity, no matter who they are, whom they love, or how they identify. Together, we can build an inclusive outdoors that is safe and welcoming for all identities and abilities.
Photos by Javonne Goodman, BLM Utah - Public Affairs Specialist
During Pride month in June and throughout the year, we celebrate the contributions of the LGBTQI+ community and honor their efforts to advance equality for all people in this country. As a part of the 2022 Utah Pride Festival in Salt Lake City, we participated in the parade with the USDA Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest and National Park Service.
The Bureau of Land Management is dedicated to fostering an inclusive and equitable environment for its employees, as well as visitors on public lands. Every person deserves the freedom to live with dignity, safety and opportunity, no matter who they are, whom they love, or how they identify. Together, we can build an inclusive outdoors that is safe and welcoming for all identities and abilities.
Photos by Javonne Goodman, BLM Utah - Public Affairs Specialist
5 May 2014 – Forum 2014 session: Inclusive Societies. OECD Headquarters, Paris, France.
Moderator: Monique Villa, CEO, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Panelists:
-Xavier de Souza Briggs, Vice President of Economic Opportunity and Assets, Ford Foundation
-Angel GurrĂa, Secretary-General, OECD
For more information, visit: For more information, visit: www.oecd.org/Forum
Photo: OECD/Andrew Wheeler
5 May 2014 – Forum 2014 session: Inclusive Societies. OECD Headquarters, Paris, France.
Moderator: Monique Villa, CEO, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Panelists:
-Xavier de Souza Briggs, Vice President of Economic Opportunity and Assets, Ford Foundation
-Angel GurrĂa, Secretary-General, OECD
For more information, visit: For more information, visit: www.oecd.org/Forum
Photo: OECD/Andrew Wheeler
During Pride month in June and throughout the year, we celebrate the contributions of the LGBTQI+ community and honor their efforts to advance equality for all people in this country. As a part of the 2022 Utah Pride Festival in Salt Lake City, we participated in the parade with the USDA Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest and National Park Service.
The Bureau of Land Management is dedicated to fostering an inclusive and equitable environment for its employees, as well as visitors on public lands. Every person deserves the freedom to live with dignity, safety and opportunity, no matter who they are, whom they love, or how they identify. Together, we can build an inclusive outdoors that is safe and welcoming for all identities and abilities.
Photos by Javonne Goodman, BLM Utah - Public Affairs Specialist
The City of Fayetteville was recently awarded a grant in the amount of $40,000 from the Baseball Tomorrow Fun (BTF). The grant supported the installation of a rubberized playing surface at the Massey Hill Recreation Center, where an existing baseball diamond was converted to a universally accessible playing surface. The Inclusive Playing Field at Massey Hill Recreation Center officially opened April 14, 2018.
Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director, Oxfam International, United Kingdom at the World Economic Forum on Africa 2017 in Durban, South Africa, 2017. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Benedikt von Loebell
Friis Arne Petersen (centre), Ambassador, The Royal Danish Embassy Berlin, Denmark, during the Exhibition at Fuel Cells and Hydrogen joint Undertaking (FCH JU), taking place at the International Transport Forum’s 2016 Summit on “Green and Inclusive Transport” in Leipzig, Germany on 18-20 May 2016.