{"id":50275,"date":"2018-08-06T16:08:10","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T20:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/?p=50275"},"modified":"2018-08-14T10:07:34","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T14:07:34","slug":"model-and-activist-jillian-mercado-advocates-for-rights-of-persons-with-disabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/blog\/2018\/08\/model-and-activist-jillian-mercado-advocates-for-rights-of-persons-with-disabilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Model and activist Jillian Mercado advocates for rights of persons with disabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>YouTube influencer and model Jillian Mercado, a female disability rights advocate, visits the United Nations to talk about issues facing persons with disabilities, and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Along the way she meets Georgi Panayotov, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Bulgaria to the United Nations, and sits down with the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres for an informal chat around CRPD, the specific challenges for women and girls with disabilities worldwide, and the importance of equality in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode\"><iframe title=\"Model and Disability Rights Activist Visits the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ\" width=\"1350\" height=\"759\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/47bRjA4pVbc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":230,"featured_media":50454,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,13,29,214,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reduced-inequality","category-gender-equality","category-sustainable-development-agenda","category-video-inequality","category-video-gender-equality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/230"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}