Regional Workshop towards a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities
Bangkok, Thailand, 14-17 October 2003

PROVISIONAL AGENDA

1. Opening of the Workshop
   
2. Objective of the Workshop
   
3. Review of Human Rights Machinery/Treaties within the UN System
   
4. Towards the Elaboration of an International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
   1. Overview of developments towards the proposed convention
   2. Report of UNESCAP Expert Group Meeting and Seminar on an International Convention to Protect and Promote the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities (2-4 June 2003, Bangkok Thailand) and the Bangkok Recommendations
   3. Report of the Second Session of the Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral Convention on Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities (16-27 June 2003, New York)
5. Orientation of the Working Group Discussions
   
6. Working Group Discussions
   1. Preamble, objectives, scope/definitions
   2. General and specific obligations of states parties
   3. Guarantee of equality and non-discrimination, guarantees of specific rights
   4. Monitoring/review/remedy mechanisms, miscellaneous provisions
7. Discussion and Adoption of the Draft Convention Text
   
8. Adoption of the Convention Text
   
9. Closing of the Workshop

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