Dr Floyd Morris
December 1, 2020
Big moves! Senator Floyd Morris elected to UN committee
Jamaican
Senator Dr Floyd Morris is among nine persons elected to the United Nations
Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).
He was elected on Monday out of a field of 29 candidates, and even though he had a late start, he becomes the first Jamaican to be a part of that committee.
He had been
nominated for the post by the late Minister Shahine Robinson.
Over the
next four years, he will play an active role in monitoring the implementation
of the Convention for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
Morris
currently lectures at the University of the West Indies, and he is director of
the Centre for Disability Studies also at the institution.
