Global Disability Summit 2025

2–3 Apr 2025 | Berlin, Germany

Wednesday, 2 April 2025 | 12:10 - 14:15

Main Event: Official Opening of the Global Disability Summit

Location:Hall 7 Track:Main Program

Pre Opening: (12:10-12:55)
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Presentation of outcomes from Regional Summits
Nadia Hadad (Member of the Executive Committee, European Disability Forum)
PT Lim (Chair, Association of Southeast Asian Nations Disability Forum
Fatma Wangare (Vice President, African Disability Forum)
Juan Angel de Gouveia (President, Latin American Network of Organizations of Persons with Disabilities and their Families)
Luisa Manuofetoa (Deputy Chief Executive Officer Social Protection, Disability and Vulnerables, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Tonga)
Moaffak ‏ Alkhfaji (Vice President, Arab Organization of Persons with Disabilities)

High-Level Opening: (12:55-13:30)
Opening statements:
Nawaf Kabbara (President, International Disability Alliance)
Olaf Scholz (Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany)
His Majesty King Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein (King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan)
Amina Mohammed (Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations)

Opening Part II: Voices for Inclusion (13:30-14:15)
Interventions by:
Dr. Marie Luise Abomo (Commissioner, African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights)
Åsmund Aukrust (Minister of International Development, Norway)
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (Director-General, World Health Organization)**
Anacláudia Rossbach**(Executive Director, UN-Habitat)

Presentation of the Civil Society Forum Declaration  
Sanja Tarczay (President, World Federation of the Deafblind)

Presentation of the Youth call to action
Charlotte Young (Youth Ambassador, International Disability Alliance)

Language Interpretation via Mobile App
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Session location Hall 7