Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 2 December 2015
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade
Sustainable Development Goals and Disability Issues: Discussion
10:00 am
Mr. Lars Bosselmann:
I am happy to add an aspect in response to one of the questions. It is important for CBM International to view ourselves and the cause of disability not just as a theme that we are concerned with and working on but as a broader movement towards human rights and their realisation. Many groups in the population do not qualify medically as persons with disabilities but are marginalised and excluded from their communities or societies. It is important to us that we fight for the same rights for everyone. We focus on disability in our project work but we do that from a human rights perspective. The SDGs call on all of us, including CBM and civil society, to see that bigger picture and work on it comprehensively. We try to move strongly in that direction.