Declaration on inclusion agreed at Global Disability Summit in Berlin

Tim Schaefer from Ottobock (L) shows a prosthetic leg to Jordan's King Abdullah II at the opening of the Global Disability Summit in Berlin. Photo: Michael Kappeler/dpa.

More than 80 countries and international organizations have agreed on a common declaration on improving inclusion for people with disabilities at a summit in Berlin, reported dpa.

The Amman-Berlin Declaration on Global Disability Inclusion, signed on Thursday, intends to boost the number of development projects focusing on inclusion for people with disabilities.

Around 1.3 billion people, or 15% of the global population, are estimated to have a disability.

Some 4,500 participants from 100 countries attended the Global Disability Summit, which was officially opened by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Jordan's King Abdullah II on Wednesday.

The aim of the two-day summit was to achieve concrete progress in implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

"With the Amman-Berlin Declaration, we have achieved a real breakthrough for the rights of people with disabilities worldwide," said German Development Minister Svenja Schulze.

The agreement provides an objective for 15% of global development projects to be targeted towards the inclusion of disabled people.