Persons with Disabilities and Their Rights in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Leaving no one Behind

Abstract

Since March 2020, Latin America and the Caribbean has been facing a health, social and economic crisis caused by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). The crisis has deepened pre-existing inequalities within countries, revealed the extent to which the most vulnerable groups in the population are excluded, and highlighted the urgency of including persons with disabilities in public policy actions taken in the short, medium and long term (ECLAC, 2020a and 2020b; ECLAC/PAHO, 2020).