Women, girls have a cyberbullying force against people with disabilities

Remembering the mantra “nothing about us, without us”, which was coined by the movement of disabilities, the UN Head of Rights, Volker Türk Universal Declaration of Human Rights With respect to people with disabilities, namely that all people are born equal.

“In all regions, people with disabilities are discriminated and dismissed; retained and retained; undervalued and underciled “ – In particular, women and girls, he said Monday. “They are attacked and ignored.”

The High Human Rights Commissioner also stressed that for today’s online communities, cyberbully “often means that no place is safe.”

Hebando that echoes that warning, the special rapporteur on the rights of people with disabilities, hebassss, said that progress in disability rights has stagnated or retreated by 14 percent of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGS) Objectives. 30 percent complete showed an insufficient change, according to the Disability and Development Report of 2024.

“The situation for women and girls with disabilities is even more serious, since they face compound discrimination,” Hagrass told the Council, in his capacity as an independent rights expert, which, like other special reporters, is not the UN staff and does not receive a salary for his work.

Women and girls with disabilities are the objectives of gender -based discrimination, as well as discrimination related to their disability, the rights expert continued.

“They are underrepresented in education and employment and have a greater risk of violence and abuse, particularly forced sterilization, domestic violence and sexual exploitation,” Mrs. Hagrass said.

Social networks: for good, for worse

Echoing the warning of the high commissioner that the Internet has forged a new space for cyberbully and online hate, the lawyer for the rights of the disabled, Nikki Lilly, insisted that it could also be a “life line” for people with visible differences.

Mrs. Lilly, 20, has been a regular online presence since the age of eight, after receiving a diagnosis that changes the life of arteriovenous malformation that affects her face, two years before.

“He gave me connections that I could follow from a hospital bed and took away the realities he faced,” he said about his campaign work on social networks, with the aim of helping others who live with rare and complex medical conditions.

When I was a child, one in five comments went to his appearance; Some called it “a monster and a reason to use contraception,” he told the Council.

That figure got up “drastically” as he aged, Mrs. Lilly continued, urging politicians and companies to protect others like her from similar abuses.

He asked social media platforms to include people with disabilities in technology development and implement faster reports to filter the content before “millions have already seen it.”

The problem falls not only to social media platforms, but also with institutions, Mrs. Lilly remembered the 47 member states of the Council.

As the avant -garde facial recognition tools open new roads, “technology is failing in our community,” said the digital creator and television presenter.

Blocked from applications

This facial recognition software often does not recognize “extreme social barriers” found by those with facial differences at a daily level, he continued.

These barriers include access to bank applications, requesting jobs or obtaining identity documents, because facial recognition technology does not recognize your face, he explained.

Mrs. Lilly welcomed the UN Convention on the rights of people with disabilities (UNRPD) and issued a direct appeal to the members of the Council that “have the power to make the human rights of people with visible differences are finally visible. This means investment in accessible digital systems that treat all the faces equally, responsibility of the strongest platform and inclusive policies to ensure that everyone can contribute to society equally. It’s time for them to listen to us and look.“

Assistance technology obstacles

Some assistance technologies are also designed by men, for men, leaving some women with prostheses designed for male bodies that do not work for women as well as they should, said Mr. Türk.

Only one in 10 people with disabilities has access to adequate technology, according to investigations of the World Health Organization cited by Sanja Tarczay, president of the World Federation of Deaf.

These technologies “are not just simple tools,” said Mrs. Tarczay. “They are facilitators and facilitators of full participation and inclusion for people with disabilities.”

Mrs. Tarczay issued a marked reminder that “a world where people with disabilities are completely included is not just a dream.”

“It is a responsibility that we all share, and it is a reality that we must commit to build together,” insisted Mrs. Tarczay.

Climatic finance a distant dream

Later in the Council, Member States addressed the equally urgent issue of developing countries prevented from investing in climate resilience through paralyzing debt reimbursements.

Attiya Waris, independent expert in the effects of foreign debtHe said that 61 countries are or are close to “debt anguish … with little chances of recovering enough fiscal space for climatic investments.”

Global climatic agreements such as 2015 Paris Agreement Recognize that developed countries that contribute the most to global warming should provide most financial assistance to support developing nations.

But despite The agreement reached the UN climate change conversations last November to triple finance to developing countries at $ 300 billion annually by 2035, “History has shown that commitments and promises often do not reach the scale of needs”SUREDAY SIGN WARIS.

She stressed that $ 2.4 billion is required annually to maintain the objectives of climate change on the way, citing the group of independent high -level experts on climatic finances that advise International Meetings of the UN Convention on Climate Change (CMNUCC).

‘Debt dystum’

In a new one report ordered by him Human Rights CouncilThe independent expert said approximately 3.3 billion people now live in countries that spend more on debt interest payments than in education or health.

Mrs. Waris, who is not a member of the UN staff and speaks in an independent capacity, cited World Bank estimates that developing countries spent $ 443.5 billion in external debt services in 2022.

The loss and damage of climatic events cost the most climatic vulnerable economies of 20 percent of the gross domestic product, ascending to $ 525 billion in the last two decades, he continued.

Other 2022 data indicated that low -income countries were spending five more times on their external debt payments than to address climate change; This proportion increased 12.5 times in 2023, according to the independent expert.

Throughout the African continent in 2024, countries that together contribute less than five percent of global carbon emissions and whose economies operate on average with clean energy of 95 percent, are expected to pay $ 163 billion in debt service, indicates the report of Mrs. Waris.