For World Down Syndrome Day 2019, Down Syndrome International supported people with Down syndrome to speak up about employment at the United Nations in Geneva. We organised a side event to the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.

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The 2019 event was sponsored by the Permanent Missions of Australia, Brazil, Israel and the UK to the United Nations in Geneva and the International Labour Organization. It had support from the Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the International Disability Alliance 

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