South Korean Prime Minister Kim Hwang-sik Thursday called on the international community to strengthen cooperation to promote human rights of the disabled and build a disability-inclusive society.

“In order to protect and ensure the inherent dignity and fundamental human rights of people with disabilities, we need to engage every level of society from governments to businesses to persons with disabilities themselves,” Kim said in his address during the opening ceremony of the High-level Inter-governmental Meeting on the Final Review of the Implementation of the Asian and Pacific Decade of Disabled Persons, 2003-2012.

The meeting, which is being held in Incheon, west of Seoul, from Oct. 29-Nov. 2 and was convened by the United Nations’ (Yonhap News)