OHCHR Press conference: 33rd CRPD Findings- 03 September 2025

Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for attending today's press conference organised by the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

Today's press conference is held in a hybrid format with Committee experts participating online from all around the world.

Being with us today, we have we have Mr Abdulmatiz Macni, Vice Chair of the Committee from Morocco, Mr Mohan Al Assi from Jordan, Madam Mahab Morrisley from Kuwait and Madam Mara Cabrilli from Brazil.

They will first walk us through their review findings on the five States parties, including the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Finland, Kiribati, Maldives and the State of Palestine.

In the second-half of the press conference, they will take your questions without further delay.

I will now pass on the floor to the Vice Chair.

Mr Mcnee, you have the floor for your opening remark and the first three countries.

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The 33rd session of the Committee on the Right of Person with Disabilities took place from 11 to the 26th August in Room 17 by Leading National Geneva.

The Committee considered the initial report of Democratic People, Republic of Korea, Karabasi, the Maldive and Thailand.

The committee also considered the situation of person with disabilities in Occupied Palestine territory.

It's considered individual commit communication and inquiries and the optional protocol of the Convention or Rights of Person with disabilities.

The Committee had the opportunity to interact with state parties in the state, parties to the Convention, Organisation of person with disabilities, civil society organisation, human rights institutions, UN United Nation agencies and United Nations country team, humanitarian, humanitarian actors and the mandated holders of special procedure on the Human Rights Council.

The Committee findings and recommendation are now posted on the Committee web page.

Regarding FIND, the Committee has concern that the budget cuts to social and health services since 2023 and in the 2026 budget proposal this personality affected people with disabilities and their representative organisation.

It also highlighted that ending national pension and allowances for those living abroad gravely impacted residents from the island in Eastland and with their visibilities leaving in Sweden.

The Committee recommended that Thailand halt and reverse retro progressive measure, provide sufficient funding to organisation of person with disability to support their participation in the implementation of the Convention and guarantee financial assistance for island resident in Sweden, either directly or in coordination with Sweden authorities.

Ricardian Carabasi The Committee noted with concern that the State party climate change and disaster framework, including the climate change policy, the Carabasi Joint Implementation Plan and disaster legislation, paid insufficient attention to people with disabilities.

It observed gaps in the preparedness measure, such as accessible earlier early wounding system, evacuation services, shelter and equal access to hematarian aid.

The Committee therefore recommend that the State party, in close consultation with people with disabilities and their representative organisation, ensure disability inclusion across all climate and disaster policy, guarantee equal access to humanitarian aid and related services, and make information, communication and decision making process fully accessible.

Regarding the Maldive, the Committee voices its concern about the absence of strategy policies and disaggregated data on women and with disabilities, the lack of gender perspective in disability laws, and absence of disability perspective in gender policy.

It further note that patriarchal norm and attitudinal barriers limited the participation of women and girls with disabilities in public life and their access to education, employment, social protection and the health services, including sexual and reproductive health.

It urged the state party to adopt A policy promoting their autonomy and include inclusion, mainstreaming gender and the disability perspective across legislation and the rise awareness to combat stereotype while ensuring equal access to services and redress.

Thank you Mr Mcnee for your presentation on Finland, motives and Kiribati.

Now we will go to the OPT.

May we have Mr Mulhani to present the findings.

Thank you very much.

It's a great opportunity to be with you and to give you the reflections and brief about our brief and hearing sessions with the Opds.

First of all, just to have or to put the context, I think everybody in this world agrees that in the ideal situation in this world, personal disabilities, they by default unfortunately encounter a form of exclusion and discrimination.

So you can imagine what could be the situation in emergency situation.

And then you can imagine more if such emergency situation is armed conflict or war.

And beyond that, you can imagine if such war is taking place in a very complicated and I would say very poor area like the West Bank and and Gaza.

Now if you look to the numbers and the committee received from different resources, including WHO talking about over 6 to 2000 fatalities, 150 injured, displaced, hundreds of thousands displaced several times in Gaza, half of the health facilities according to WHO are partially functional in in Gaza.

Then we are talking about unprecedented, I would say situation for persons with disabilities, bearing in mind that throughout decades, maybe 2 decades now doesn't under, you know, I mean like blockade or siege, which means that even the basic services before the war or before wars or armed conflicts, they were really we really inaccessible for persons with disabilities.

The committee organised the three days hearing sessions.

During these days we listen to Opds from the West Bank, some of them.

Fortunately, they succeeded to join us in in in Geneva.

Also we interviewed and we listened to several stories and statements from activists and organisations working in the disability feed and in humanitarian aid online in, in in Gaza and in the West Bank.

The committee also listened to official delegations from Palestine, Jordan, Egypt, Jordan, Egypt, as fit affected state parties.

And also there was an invitation sent to the government of Israel to attend and to deliver their statement and to have a dialogue with the committee.

But unfortunately they didn't.

They didn't show up.

Also, the committee listened and interviewed the relevant UN agencies, including Onorwa, in order to listen to the last updates and the situation in in Gaza.

So overall, the committee concluded these sessions by a report.

In this report, follow up report, we put a list of serious concerns regarding the situation of persons with disability in Gaza.

I would say in all aspects of life there, whether you know, I mean like health, education, right to life, of course, all challenges related to the evacuation and the warning before any bombardment and all these things.

And the committee also put responding and relevant recommendations to the Government of Israel as the occupying authority or power in in West Bank and in Gaza.

Also recommendations to the State of Palestine and also for the the neighbour, the neighbourhood country.

I would conclude by saying that what we are witnessing there in Gaza is highly, I would say, concerning for us as as a committee, and we do believe that Allstate parties to the CRPD, they really failed in a way or another to fulfil their obligations to protect and to ensure the minimum protection of persons with disabilities in the emergency situation as set forth in Article 11 of the Convention.

Thank you very much.

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Maybe we can go to Miss Rehab for her second part of the presentation on the OPT Thank you.

The Committee heard with this May that the hostility we have store destroyed communities and caused the breakdown of community networks leading to isolation and embedding persons with disabilities, in particular women, children and older persons with disabilities to access any type of support or remaining services in the community, such as former community based rehabilitation services.

Persons with disabilities have also lost contact with their families or relatives and the outside world.

The Committee recommended that State parties ensure reconstruction in close consultation and the active involvement of persons with disabilities, allocate resources of developing support and community services accessible for person with disabilities and prohibit the use of funds of institutionalisation or segregated setting, including in education.

The Committee is disturbed by the risk of gender based violence and the exploitation being faced by women and girls with disabilities and people with intellectual and or psychosocial disabilities in the street, in Empire Vice pants and internally displacement camps.

The lack of secure accessible spaces and aggravating fact is an aggravating factor of violence and exploitation.

The obstacles and both to the work and access of a herewitarian actors have put people with disabilities in a worst case scenario where no referral baths baths are available with safe housing being destroyed and the breakdown of psychological support for survivors of violence, including gender based violence.

The Committee called upon State parties to adopt specific majors measures for protecting women and children with disabilities from attacks including gender based violence, abuse and exploitation, ensuring medical and psychosocial redress, safeguardance, guarding and autonomy.

The Committee is aboled by the impacts of conflict, armed attacks and siege on the most marginalised women, children and older persons with disabilities.

The Committee is deeply concerned about the grave impact of this conflict on the mental health of persons with disabilities.

The Committee heard testimonies that account of high levels of psychological distress, depression, panic attacks, continuous crying and trauma among children and adults with disabilities.

People with disability with disabilities live in exhaustion for the multiple and repeated elders of displacement and the misery of roble and destruction around them.

The Committee calls upon state parties to ensure immediate access to psychosocial support for people with disabilities affected by hostilities, especially those who have been displaced, lost family members or and carers.

It also recommended that state parties report on the mental health status of persons with disabilities.

Any close cooperation with organisations of persons with disabilities through desegregated data collection and needs assessments.

The Committee notes that there are efforts to collect information and data about persons with disabilities by the humanitarian actors, civil society and the UN.

It, however notes with concern that official statistics are not desegregated by disability, gender, age, refugee situation.

We call the state parties and the humanitarian actors to strengthen its efforts to collect and use disability desegregated data in a humanitarian response and that data informs decision making during the recovery and reconstruction.

The Committee received with a great concern information about people with disabilities in the West Bank, including E Jerusalem, who are facing aware sink in the incident of settler violence, violence at checkpoints, killings including the killings of at least seven people with disabilities killed out of 979 people killed between 7th October 2023 and 11 August 2025.

Military operations and orders of evacuation and disablacement have also affected people with disabilities who have been among the first displaced from Jinin, Tolkien and Norsheim camps in northern West Bank.

The committee called upon Israel to comply with the International Court of Justice Advisory 2024 and avoid the new settlement plans, including in relation to the Gaza strike.

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Now we can move on to the findings on the DPRK.

We have Miss Maura Gabrielli to to present the findings.

Thank you very much.

Good morning, everybody.

So the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has completed its review of the initial report submitted by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

While we acknowledge the submission of the report and the engagement of the authorities, we remain deeply concerned about significant gaps between domestic laws and practises and the requirements of the Convention.

Today we will highlight two primary areas, equality and no discrimination and the right to inclusive education regarding equality and non discrimination.

The Committee moves with concern that the Socialist Constitution of DPRK does not explicitly prohibit discrimination on the basis of disability, nor does it guarantee equality for persons with disabilities.

Domestic legislation also fails to recognise the denial of reasonable accommodation as a form of discrimination.

We are particularly concerned about the following the absence of comprehensive anti discrimination law that applies the to both the public and private sectors, the persistence of stigma and negative suicetto attitudes rooted in cultural ideals.

Ideals of the strength and productivity which result in exclusion, counselment and institutionalisation of persons with disabilities.

A2 Tiered approach where veterans with physical impairments receive the differentiate treatment while other persons with disabilities, especially in rural areas are excluded from services.

Entitlements such as rations assisted by housing support and social protection benefits prioritise so-called honorary soldiers with disabilities acquired through military service while excluding other persons with disabilities.

And finally, the lack of clarity and effectiveness of the national system for addressing complaints included in cases of denial of reasonable accommodation or multiple and intersectional discrimination.

The Committee has therefore recommended that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea amend its Constitution to explicitly prohibited disability basic discrimination and recognised denying of reasonable accommodation as discrimination.

Adopted a comprehensive anti discrimination law covering all sectors, ensuring equal access to services and benefits for all persons with disabilities, whether or not they are veterans, while addressing urban rural disparity disparities.

Combat stigma and harmful stereotypes through awareness raising campaigns.

Includes education and training of officials and strengthen the national complaints system to ensure accessible, effective and timely, timely remedies for persons with disabilities, including in cases of multiple and intersectional discrimination.

Regarding education, the Committee is also concerned about the state of inclusive education in DPRK.

We note that existing legislation is still promotes segregated education.

Inclusive education remains standard development with insufficient resource and a lack of reasonable accommodation based on individual needs, which often results in the seclusion of children's with disabilities.

Key concerns including the following Inadequate training of teachers and staff in inclusive education.

Braille, sign language and disability inclusive teaching methods, limited accessible materials and adaptive learning environments.

Persistent viewers for persons with disabilities, especially women and persons with intellectual, sickle, social or multiple disabilities, in accessing higher education and vocational training, and the absence of real, reliable, disaggregated data on students with disabilities in both urban and Europe areas.

The Committee heads therefore recommended the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to review its education laws and policies to bring them fully in line with the Convention, ensuring participation of persons with disabilities and their families in the process.

Development and implement A comprehensive strategy with clear targets, indicators and time frames to make inclusive education a reality.

This strategy should include adequate funding, resource allocation and a clear plan to phase out segregated education to restructure the transition programmes.

Ensure systematic training of teachers and education personnel of inclusive education and the human rights model of disability.

Provide individualised support, accessible environments and teaching materials in formats such as Braille is arrayed sign language and accessible digital tools.

Guarantee access for persons with disabilities to higher education and vocational training through inclusive curricula, reasonable accommodation and accessible environments, with particular attention to women with disabilities and persons with multiple disabilities and establish A comprehensive desegregated desegregated data that collection system to monitor the participation of persons with disabilities in all forms of the education to guide evidence based policy making.

In summary, the Committee calls on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to take concrete steps toward helping its obligations under the Convention, particularly to ensure equality and non discrimination and to advancing inclusive education.

This entitles moving away from segregation and embracing the human rights model of disability.

We urge the State Part to act on these recommendations without delay, in line with its obligations under the Convention.

Thank you very much.

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Now we can open the floor for question and then I have I can see hands in the room.

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On, on Gaza, firstly, could you please tell us your name?

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Firstly on, on Gaza, firstly, can you take us through the numbers of people and particularly children who are newly disabled by the war?

The report speaks of 21,000 children.

And secondly, as things stand, what are the prospects for those children now?

What are their prospects of receiving the the help and treatment that they need?

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Mr Mohanna, would you like to take the question?

Yes, thank you very much for the question.

First of all, we have to admit that we, there is no unfortunately and this is one of our concerns and our recommendations that we don't have a very, I would say tangible data about the number.

But I would say the number of persons the children who became with a disability during to the war is estimated by as you mentioned thousands.

At least what we know from UNICEF and other resources that we are talking.

And this was last year, one year ago by the way, approximately about more than 1000 child with amputation, which means that if you want to apply this average and with the increase of the military operations, then absolutely this number will be if if not higher, it's it's going to be maybe doubled.

The second issue talking about disability, according to I would say approximate estimation by WHO we have around 480 four 185,000 persons with now with mental health issues or psychosocial disability and we believe that the large majority of this number are children with with disabilities.

For your second question about the perspective for children with disabilities to receive AIDS or even to access to humanitarian aids, we have to admit that the situation is really complicated and access to AIDS actually is very limited for children with disabilities because both things, because they are children and because I mean they have disability.

With such situation, with full absence of all forms of accessibility, it seems impossible for them to be equal in terms of reaching or access the limited aids and assistance available in in Gaza.

So This is why we do believe that children with disabilities must be at the high of the ladder of priority for humanitarian aid or humanitarian action organisations.

They must be reached out.

We can't expect from children or even from their children with disabilities and their family, for example, to be able to run and go to the points where the, you know, I mean the the aids and the assistance are being provided.

So This is why one of our main recommendation that children with disabilities must be reached out in terms of all forms of aids and and assistance.

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Do we have question in the room?

Yes, Jamie from Association Press thank you very much for your presentation.

I wanted to know, you mentioned that there was not a lot of of of response from Israel Doctor Al Azza.

I was wondering if if in any way has there been any sort of accommodation at all that you've noticed or any even take awareness of the plight faced by people with disabilities in Gaza or in the West Bank as as Maribor Wrestling has also has also mentioned.

Could you, could you give, is there any sign that Israel is aware of these issues from your perspective?

And just as a second thing, is there any way to say exactly specifically whether or not there are given the very difficult situation there, if there are, if there's, if it's even possible to to to accommodate people with disabilities given the just very difficult situations there?

Thank you for for the first part of your question.

First of all, there is no doubt that all the published data by all UN agencies, international human rights organisation, international humanitarian action and AIDS organisation, they are absolutely in the public domain and we absolutely assume that they are available for everybody, including Israel.

And in the second, second place before October 7th, in September 2023, the Committee reviewed and conducted the constructive dialogue with the State of Israel and the committee actually highlighted several serious concerns.

This is before October 7th to Israel about the situation of persons with disabilities in OPT.

And there of course, were several recommendations.

Third, the report the Committee drafted now after the hearing session is shared with the Permanent Mission of Israel and of course, then with the government.

And as I said again, the Committee informed the delegation of Israel, the Permanent mission in Geneva about the whole process, about the, the, the situation that we want, we want to discuss.

So for us, we really don't have doubts that the information are already known by the government of, of Israel.

For your second part of the question, if you can just please clarify it, how do you mean by accommodating persons with disabilities?

Do you mean like outside of OPT or within OPT or Sorry, I meant in, just in terms of the, you know, for example, in people, you know, some people with disabilities need special equipment or they need Guide Dogs or they need various other sorts of things to make their lives better.

And I'm just wondering if those things have been jeopardised to to what extent those have been jeopardised or if, if it's even possible to provide those things given the sort of what some people call catastrophic situation in in or for example, you know, UNRWA, for example, which presumably might be one of the providers of some of these aids that's having more difficulty operating in Palestinian areas as well.

Yeah, thank you, my friend.

You know, I mean like as I feel from your, I mean from your life or smile, you absolutely recognise that unfortunately, unfortunately, basic reasonable accommodation forms, they became kind of luxury, unfortunately for personal disabilities in such situation.

Because imagine with me like if you have a wheelchair, if you have a white cane or if you have a, for example, a guide dog in, in reality, I mean like on the ground, there is kind of impossibility to use it because of the rubble, because of the massive destroyed, you know, I mean, or destruction in homes and roads.

Now, what the international organisations and UN agencies and other actors actually I mean, focus on is the very basic assistive devices for personal disabilities, like for example, crutches, wheelchair, even in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in Gaza.

I mean, I mean, they can be used for example, in, in, even in, in limited, for example, spaces or areas.

We are focusing on how to at least make sure that persons with disabilities, in particular those who acquire, you know, I mean a disability due to the war, if they can be, you know, I mean, on the top of, of, of, of the priorities regarding evacuation to other countries just to receive medical treatment and, and, and, and medical aid in the West Bank.

Although it seems of course, I mean it's, it's the situation is, is quite also difficult there.

But in comparison to Gaza, I would say we can say, I mean it's, it's worse, not the, it's worse, not the worst.

But again, in West Bank, as you absolutely know, there is lack of accessibility and there is something we mentioned in our report due to lack of implementation since 1999, which is the year of the adoption of the Palestinian law and the rights of personal disabilities.

So now even with the evacuation from Norsham's camps, from Jenin, from other areas, the the schools in the West Bank, which became shelters for all Palestinians, they are inaccessible for personal disabilities, inaccessible in terms of everything, in terms of entrances, in terms of premises, in terms of toilets.

So with, with a grave sad as a person with a disability, I would say what is really considered for us now basic and necessary reasonable accommodation, a huge part of it where it's it's complementary for personal disabilities in both West Bank and in Gaza.

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Mr Muhannad, is there any follow up question in the room?

Yes, AFP, Ruben, thank you.

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On on evacuation orders, your, your report mentions people being unaware of the evacuation orders being given in Gaza due to their due to their disabilities.

Can you speak about the, the scale of, of this problem?

Because I think that's not something that's been mentioned much at all during this war.

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Thank you very much.

This is one of the most serious issues because again, I would repeat, in regular situation, personal disabilities are excluded, in emergency more excluded and in war it's it's more and more or deeper complicated for them.

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The committee received information that during the prolonged of the cut of the electricity or outlet of the electricity ADEF mother in Rafa, for example, she was not aware because she didn't receive anything via mobile or via anything else that her neighbour her close neighbour under evacuation order.

This is why she didn't do anything at the time and unfortunately the result was that she couldn't flee when the strike or the the bombardment started and unfortunately she was killed with her children.

Another example which is very tragic.

Also a media report about nine years old girl, her name is Noor Noor Bell, she has two parents, 2 deaf parents.

Noor narrates in a very simultaneous but very, I would say painful way how her two parents in high to far to far area fully relies on her as their first warning in case of any sound or vibration or anything taking place around them in order to flee or to hide.

She narrates, for example, how she had a vibration of a tank and her father felt that there's something really shaking a little bit and then she signed to her father telling him that there is a sound of tanks and it becomes closer and closer.

And then her mother signed for her and for her father to take a corner in in the house to be in a quote UN quote more secure areas.

This girl also told the media how she began instead of playing going to school, how she began to learn new signs, new vocabularies in sign language just to save her life and her parents life.

She says that she used to open her mobile and shows her mother the tanks, the shrapnel, the quadcopter, you know what I mean, aircrafts, because before I mean, she doesn't know how to sign these vocabularies.

And then she was asking her mother, how can I sign these weapons and things to you so you understand that I mean, they are around us so we can we can flee, for example.

Last but not least, another example and we have 10s of examples of the Rahman Rabawi.

For example, a guy with cerebral palsy and a disability in his lower limb, his mother during 13 different displacement for the family was carrying his wheelchair and his father, his brother was carrying up the Rahman himself.

And finally they decided to stay in destroyed house with in I mean like 2 rooms with their cousins relatives overcrowded room and that they can't really move anymore anymore.

And I would conclude with east of Rafah, when a young female with a wheelchair, she was crawling in the in on the sand and asking her family when they were fleeing from the aircrafts, the military aircrafts telling them, you can leave me here.

Because she felt that she's slowing them, slowing them down and she's jeopardising their their lives.

So as, as, as you can see, I mean, we can go with our imagination to the last extent to find out that everything we can imagine, unfortunately for personal disabilities, it's really happening on the ground.

Thank you, Mr Mohana, for sharing all these cases.

All very distressing for sure.

I understand that Miss Gabrielli and Miss Rehab have some additional information to share.

So maybe we have Miss Rehab first.

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Doctor Mohandad, I think he covers all the important issue for me.

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You don't have any more additional.

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All right.

And then Miss Keberly, would you like to say a few words on Gaza or?

Yes, thank you very much.

And with the excuse of Mohammed Ali, just wanted to go back to the question on what the Committee is doing to ensure in Gaza Strip.

As members of the committee, we have a limited mandate.

In the final report, we added several mentions to mobile units for rehabilitation and medical treatments, food, water, medicines, assistive devices, wheelchair authorities, processes, hearing aids.

We don't want to give up on providing this essential service.

So we cannot wait until the ceasefire or until the war is over.

We are also committed in our personal levels.

This are one to, to, to, to bring on.

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I can see one question online from F Antonio.

Antonio, would you like to take the floor to ask your question?

Thank you for waiting.

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So I, I want to ask about the DPRK report.

It mentions that disabled people are sometimes subjected to scientific experiments.

I wonder if you can elaborate more on this.

What kind of experiments are involved and how many people could be affected by this?

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Madam Gabrielee, could you would you like to take this question?

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So the Committee is very concerned about credible reports that persons with disabilities in the DPRK have been subjected to scientific or medical experimentation without their free and informed consent, including in physiatric institution and detention facilities.

The Committee expects that the DPRK to immediately prohibit and criminalise all forms of medical or scientific experimentation on persons with disability disabilities without their consent, ensure independent oversight of institutions and guarantee that no consent can either be obtained cause certainly from family members.

It also urges the state to establish accessible complaints mechanisms for vitamins, nicknames and to provide address rehabilitation and accountability.

And at the heart of this issue is a reminder that persons with disabilities are not objects of treatment or experimentation, but equal human beings and right holders entitled to body integrity, autonomy and respect.

Thank you very much.

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Do we have any follow up question or other question on the DBLK?

Sorry, just to complete that.

However, we couldn't have access to official data and statistic on the during our posterative dialogue with the state party.

Unfortunately, they didn't provide this information.

Yes, I can see Jamie from Associated Press has a follow up question in the room.

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I just you, you, you, I wasn't quite clear as to exactly specifically what kind of scientific or medical experimentation that we're talking about.

I mean, what kind of tests are these?

I mean, does it have to do with, I don't know, you know, medical research or nuclear weapons or I don't know.

Could you give us a little bit more specifics about what kind of testing on on people with disabilities that you're talking about?

I will try to provide this answer on writing.

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Yeah, sorry, I saw, I briefly saw a hand from Kyoto News, but I'm not sure whether the hand is still up or is down now.

Yes, thank you very much.

I'm ready for QDI News of Japan Cities News Agency.

I just have a question regarding your, your quoting several times credible sources, credible reports.

Could we could we know a little bit more?

Did you interview people?

Are you referring to all reports?

What are just that?

I thank you very much.

Miss Mara, would you like to answer this now or you want to also write an e-mail later on?

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Sorry.

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So we have not access to several reports from people who who fled the country.

So we have information from people who run away from the country.

So it's so hard for us to have information from inside the country.

And we also had from the special hyper care during her visit in 2017 and and this kind of information and other convention confidential reports.

Yes, another question from in the room from AFP.

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Just just on these experiments, did you, did you put this to the DPRK representatives during the review?

And if So, what was there, what was their response?

Did they, did they say that these things were happening?

Did they say they weren't happening or or did they even, did they even attend the review?

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They said that it wasn't true what we heard from the access that we had from people that used to live there, that it's normal to make first of all sterilisation and, and we heard about infant side, we heard about experimental use of persons with visibility for any kind of research.

And we, I cannot define the kind of research, but we heard about the use of persons with disabilities as Qubaya, as experimental persons for clinical trials that were not with no consentment.

And the state said that it was a lie.

This was the answer of the state and it was not based on the truth.

This was the answer of the state.

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Miss Mara, since the time is running L maybe we can have a Mr Vice Chair to give us a very quick concluding remark and then if there are any more question we can we can answer by e-mail.

Mr Mcnee, would you like to conclude the press conference?

Thank you, Viva Vivian, take a collect for all your responses.

The Committee on the Right of Person with Disabilities strongly condemn the ongoing humanitarian catastrophe on the Occupied Palestine territory, including Gaza and West Bank, and demand the immediate and total cessation of hostility and the restoration of peace.

The Committee also_the urgent need of for humanitarian action to be fully inclusive of person with disabilities.

Despite the effort of the international organisation, the humanitarian response have too often failed by design to integrate accessible and accessibility and inclusion.

The Committee reaffirm its stake first solidarity with people with visibilities affected by army conflict in Gaza and West Bank and everywhere and declare before the international community it's an Waverly commitment to develop, to defend their rights, dignity and the inclusion in full accordance with the CRPD.

Thank you all for your support.

Thank you, Mr Mcnee, and that brings today's press conference to a close.

Thank you for attending today's press conference and then I wish you a very good afternoon.

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