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2025
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Prof Floyd Morris re‑elected to UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Published: Tuesday, June 11, 2024
By: Jamaica Observer
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Professor Floyd Morris has been re‑elected to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).
Morris, who recently made history as the first blind professor at The University of the West Indies, garnered 135 votes from 186 countries.
The professor of Disability Studies was first elected to the UN committee in November 2020 for a four‑year term.
The CRPD is the international body of experts that monitors implementation of the rights guaranteed under the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2007).