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 At Paralympics, top UN official highlights rights of people with
disabilities

Wilfried Lemke, Special Adviser on Sport for Development and Peace
16 March 2010 - The Paralympic Games currently under way in Vancouver,
Canada, highlight the contribution sport can make in promoting the inclusion
and well-being of people with disabilities, a senior United Nations official
said today.
"The Paralympics are a powerful example of what can be achieved when
everyone is given the opportunity to participate and perform to their full
potential," said Wilfried Lemke, the Secretary-General's Special Adviser on
Sport for Development and Peace.

Last Thursday, he carried the Paralympic torch in downtown Vancouver and the
following day, together with Philipp Craven, President of the International
Paralympic Committee (IPC), opened the Olympic Truce Wall.

The traditional age-old truce urges warring parties to lay down their arms
as the Olympic Games' ancient Greek founders did some 2,700 years ago.

Last week, he also addressed students at a Model UN Conference in Vancouver
on the importance of the Paralympic movement in advancing the implementation
of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which Canada
ratified the day before the Paralympic Games kicked off on 10 March.

The Convention, which entered into force in May 2008 and has so far been
endorsed by 144 countries, is the culmination of years of global efforts to
ensure that the rights of the world's estimated 650 million persons with
disabilities are guaranteed and protected.

It asserts the rights to education, health, work, adequate living
conditions, freedom of movement, freedom from exploitation and equal
recognition before the law for persons with disabilities.



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