Community Empowerment Progress Organization commemoration 14th Independence Day Annual National Campaign on promotion and protection of the rights of persons with disabilities.
Edmond Yakani said the campaign is called “I am for UNCRPD South Sudan.
“This campaign is designed and launched for annual commemoration of our successful advocacy and lobby for the ratification of the United Nations Convention for the rights of persons with disabilities and its optional protocol which, president of South Sudan signed on 24th February, 2023 and United Nations Secretary General officially wrote to the government of South Sudan to enforce the UNCRPD and its optional protocol,”
he added that CEPO will annually collaborate with the National Ministry of Gender, Child, and Social Welfare, South Sudan Union of persons with disabilities and other development partners among them is Light for the World. The campaign ” I am for UNCRPD South Sudan” will be a platform that offers annually awarding of awards to individuals and institutions that have outstanding efforts for promotion and protection of the rights of persons with disabilities in South Sudan Yakani stressed
“ CEPO is urging the general public, government officials, private sector, media, and civil society, including others, to effectively engage in the campaign”