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Organized by:
UN ESCAP
(United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific)
Population and Social Integration
Section, Emerging Social Issues Division
and the
Division for Social Policy and Development of the
United Nations
Presented by an expert team which includes:
Associates for International Management
Services (AIMS) |
Expert Group Meeting and Seminar on an International Convention to Protect and Promote the
Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities
Bangkok, Thailand
2-4 June 2003
This Expert Group Meeting (EGM) was be held at the United Nations Conference Center
Bangkok, on 2-4 June 2003. A total of 125 experts attended the meeting: 36 experts from 19
countries, 87 experts representing NGOs, 2 resource persons and a number of observers from
9 UN agencies, permanent missions, etc.
The EGM seeks to contribute to the promotion of awareness and support for a seventh
international human rights instrument that would address the promotion and protection of
the rights of persons with disabilities and would further thereby equalization of
opportunities for persons with disabilities.
The goal of this EGM relates to General Assembly resolutions 56/168 and 57/229 and the
consideration of context, structure and elements of a comprehensive and integral
international convention to promote and protect the rights and dignity of persons with
disabilities.
In the context of the renewed Asian and Pacific Decade of
Disabled Persons (2003-2012) project follow up could include public information
activities to promote awareness and support for development-based approaches to the
advancement of persons with disabilities, and sub-regional cooperation in building
national capacities and institutions for sustainable livelihoods by, for and with persons
with disabilities in Asia and the Pacific.
* Also available in Japanese, at http://www.jfd.or.jp/int/unconv/bangkok-rec_j.html,
coutesy of Japanese Federation of the Deaf |
