Business leadership on disability rights as human rights, 3rd African BHR Forum

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The session "Business leadership on disability rights as human rights", at the 3rd African Business and Human Rights Forum, on 8 October, highlighted the human rights generally, and the labour rights specifically, of persons with disabilities as a marginalised group, which can be and are already protected and promoted by leading companies in the African business community. 

Multinational enterprises (MNEs), regionally and nationally operating companies as well as Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Africa show a growing commitment to the inclusion of people with disabilities in their policies, programmes and workforces. 

As the promotion of disability rights in the private, for-profit sector is a learning process, National Business and Disability Networks (NBDNs), including in several African countries, provide a space for companies to join their peers that share the same values and commitment on disability inclusion to exchange on this topic and benefit from the expertise of actors from the disability sector. At global level the African NBDNs are part of the more than forty NBDN members of the ILO Global Business and Disability Network (GBDN).