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DISABILITY AT A GLANCE 2021 - The Shaping of Disability-Inclusive Employment in

17 Dec 2021

DISABILITY AT A GLANCE 2021 The Shaping of Disability-Inclusive Employment in Asia and the Pacific The shaded areas of the map indicate ESCAP members and associate members.* The Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) is the most inclusive intergovernmental platform in the Asia–Pacific region. [...] Disability at a Glance 2021: The Shaping of Disability-Inclusive Employment in Asia and the Pacific proposes a range of recommenda- tions to Governments and other stakeholders in the region towards upholding the rights of persons with disabilities to employment that are enshrined in the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Inche. [...] This has created opportunity Improve the regular collection and quality of data on for governments to transform and institutionalize some the employment of persons with disabilities across of the temporary measures to the benefit of persons the region as part of the overall labour market surveys with disabilities. [...] Disabilities and of the first goal of the Incheon Strategy to “Make the Right Real” for Persons with Disabilities in Chapter 2 summarizes the evolution of the under- Asia and the Pacific. [...] In six of the 11 countries, tional difficulty in informality was strikingly high, with there was a gradient in the share of adults engaged a median of 80 per cent, compared with the 66 per in informal work, with the share in informal work the cent median for persons without difficulty.
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122
Published in
Thailand