International Disability Alliance (IDA)

International Disability Alliance (IDA)
150 Route de Ferney
CH-1211 Genève 2

IDA brings together over 1,100 organisations of persons with disabilities and their families from across eight global and six regional networks.

The organisation promotes the rights of persons with disabilities across the United Nations' efforts to advance human rights and sustainable development. It supports organisations of persons with disabilities to hold their governments to account and advocate for change locally, nationally and internationally.

The cornerstone of its work is the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN CRPD). IDA promotes the effective and full implementation of the UN CRPD, and compliance by governments and the UN System, through the active and coordinated involvement of representative organisations of persons with disabilities at the national, regional and international levels. The 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals are also integral to IDA's work to promote inclusive, sustainable development in line with the UN CRPD and the rights of persons with disabilities.

With member organisations around the world, IDA represents the estimated one billion people worldwide living with disabilities. This is the world’s largest – and most frequently overlooked – marginalised group. IDA, with its unique composition as a network of the foremost international disability rights organisations, is the most authoritative representation of persons with disabilities on the global level, and acknowledged as such by the United Nations system both in New York and Geneva.

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