Tunisia will chair works of the 16th Session of the Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), due June 13-15 in New York.

Social Affairs Minister Malek Ezzahi who will lead the Tunisian delegation, will deliver an address during this conference which will be hosted at the United Nations headquarters and attended by UN Secretary-General António Guterres, reads a Social Affairs Ministry press release.

Several themes will be discussed during this conference, notably the harmonisation of national policies and strategies with the CRPD and access of persons with disabilities to reproductive health services and digitisation.

Permanent Representative of Tunisia to the United Nations Tarek Ladeb will chair on the occasion, an interactive debate on June 13 on the implementation of the CRPD.

Source: Agence Tunis Afrique Presse