{"id":938,"date":"2019-06-29T14:30:30","date_gmt":"2019-06-29T10:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/134.0.207.102\/~ohrc\/english\/?p=938"},"modified":"2026-05-25T18:13:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T07:13:56","slug":"call-for-global-technology-technologies-for-people-with-autism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ohrc.om\/en\/call-for-global-technology-technologies-for-people-with-autism\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for global technology technologies for people with autism"},"content":{"rendered":"On World Autism Awareness Day, United Nations Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres underscored in his message, the importance of technology which helps people living with autism \u201cachieve their full potential\u201d.\n\nDiscussions with self-advocates and autism experts covered topics from leveling the playing field through the internet and digital communities, to political participation and advocacy that gives voice to people with autism.\n\nIn recent years, societies across the world have become increasingly aware of autism, the neurological condition that impacts communication and social behavior. Last year, Mr. Guterres launched a Strategy on New Technologies to help align these tools with UN values, international law and human rights conventions, including the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.\n\nThis year\u2019s observance underscores the importance of \u201caffordable assistive technologies\u201d to help people with autism live independently and \u201cexercise their basic human rights\u201d, he said.\n\nHowever, the UN chief pointed out that there are still \u201cmajor barriers to accessing such technologies\u201d, including high costs, unavailability and a lack of awareness of their potential.\n\nData point out that the more than 50% of the persons with disabilities need assistive devices in many developing countries could not get such devices.\n\nLast year, Mr. Guterres launched a Strategy on New Technologies to help align these tools with UN values, international law and human rights conventions, including the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.\n\nThis year\u2019s observance underscores the importance of \u201caffordable assistive technologies\u201d to help people with autism live independently and \u201cexercise their basic human rights\u201d, he said.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On World Autism Awareness Day, United Nations Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres underscored in his message, the importance of technology which helps people living with autism \u201cachieve their full potential\u201d. Discussions with self-advocates and autism experts covered topics from leveling the playing…","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":935,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ohrc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ohrc.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ohrc.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ohrc.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ohrc.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ohrc.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ohrc.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":989749,"href":"https:\/\/ohrc.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions\/989749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ohrc.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ohrc.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ohrc.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ohrc.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}